Is for KDE and X.org, maybe not Inkscape but trust me on this. Especially for SPARC systems it means everything. If you've ever used GCC on IRIX/MIPS you'd know how convoluted and slow it is for non-x86 architectures. For x86 it's still suffering for large packages such as KDE. Don't believe me, then try the old KDE blastwave package and then try KDE 4 from spec using Spro. I wouldn't call it an abstraction either, libtool and gcc toolchain is just pure garbage with too much complexity within itself and the licensing future is scary.
James On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:34 PM, S h i v wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080427/97e78517/attachment.html>
