On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <Laszlo.Peter at sun.com> wrote: > SFEinkscape finally works, as the screenshot proves (: > > Unfortunately not with Sun Studio, but I wrote spec files for > a separate stack of g++-built libraries.
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > > I know the KDE team also has problems building with Sun Studio C++ > compiler, and they plan to use the Apache Standard C++ Library > instead of using GCC C++ compiler. Would it make sense to go in > the same direction with Inkscape? That way we do things in a more > consistant way. > Why not just use gcc itself ! 1. One needs to go through unnecessary hoops to make some of the softwares build with sunpro. Using abstraction layers, maintaining lot of patches, fixing the (sunpro)compiler as being done for KDE, etc. 2. Being able to *distribute* the compiler toolset with which people can do the app development is a valuable proposition to have. By building using sunpro we are foregoing that option. I have heard the argument of performance and seen the benchmarks. I am not convinced that this argument is strong enough to tilt the balance. -Shiv
