Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> You may be remembering the discussions about why Sun chose GNOME/GTK over
> KDE/Qt - and for the primary development GUI toolkit, that was an issue, but
> for additional software that's provided as an option, or software that's being
> used like kdm, but not offered as a developement kit to build on, it shouldn't
> be an obstacle. (It was also much more of an issue when the GNOME vs. KDE
> decision was made 8 years ago at Sun, since the choice was between $3000
> Sun C++ and $0 g++ - but now that Sun C++ is also free, the price is no
> longer a barrier to usage/adoption.)
So you would propose to create SS compiled libraries and tell users to also use
Sun Studio if they like to use the libs? OK, if the price/availability
was the main reason, this looks different now.
J?rg
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