> discussing about interfaces and standards is a good > thing, standards are > a good thing, the hack&slay > mentality often shown in the so-called "open source > community" is not.
Try to understand it from a different view: the source is not available, so there is no reason to keep compatiblity - it's impossible. See eg. Ghostscript - it's a Postscript interpreter that's now very "mature". But it still is not 100% compatible to the Adobe-Postscript interpreter - and even if some people that made Ghostscript where consulted for PDF specifications, Ghostscript still has some incompatiblities with PDF files. The only possible solutions are: a) have original source code b) have the people that coded the original. My personal opinion is that a) is the safer way. -Helmar This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
