Hi folks, Am 18.03.2012 um 15:30 schrieb Peter Bonivart: > Great to hear from you again James. > > On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, James Lee <[email protected]> wrote: >> *Also* using cc contributes to software by excluding any particular >> compiler's quirks and extensions thus ensuring software's freedom and >> increasing cooperation. > > So we should make it harder on ourselves for the greater good? Isn't > that what we're already doing by using Solaris in a world of Linux? > How much self-inflicted pain is enough? > > If we consider lowering the bar we may get more active maintainers > which is critical to _this_ project.
Every maintainer can use gcc any time as he wants, by own preference or when problems occur. Having Sun Studio to aid porting is a good thing IMHO. Maybe we should refocus to bringing an environment to users where they can easily build their own modules for Perl and Ruby. Best regards -- Dago -- "You don't become great by trying to be great, you become great by wanting to do something, and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process." - xkcd #896 _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
