Aside from performance difference, it might had been better for us running on Mono CLR or JVM, since at least it would compile and work. Then again, no one can tell us why they switched to C++, not much of GNOME has gone that direction, why GSM?
I don't care either way being in either past or present, but hopefully some workaround can be implemented, or perhaps fork their last C release and add similar features. It seems that this would be the only logical way for Sun to go since they are so committed and arrogant with their compilers, which lack the needed support. I'm all for standards, but in this case there's really nothing we can do, except yell at the GNU folks for using non-standards and adding every option into every program for even the most obscure and stupid reasons, well that's just GNU. The whole kitchen sink routine in plain sight for all to suffer from. James On May 29, 2008, at 5:51 AM, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:35 -0700, hua zhang wrote: >> Sorry, in fact I also don't know the actual reason. Maybe they want >> to >> practise C++ programming.. :) >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > Well, atleast it wasn't Java, C# or *shudder* some other god awful > language. Then again, the studio developers need to rattle their dags > and get on with implementing things that GCC has - or otherwise it'll > end up making Suns studio package look like a joke in the developer > community - unless of course someone here wishes to volunteer to > re-write the portions of gnome system monitor unsupported by Sun > Studio's C++ compiler. > > Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20080529/763989b1/attachment.html>
