On 13 Mar 2003 17:51:31 -0500, you wrote: >Can you name a major application (i.e. one that a lot of people use) >that's written for GTK2 that will leave people in the lurch? Look, I'm a
12 to 24 months ago there were a lot of job ads for people with GTK+ experience for programming on Solaris. This is certainly a good indication that the ISV market is in the process of moving to GTK+ from Motif, and that means GTK2/Gnome2. While there may not be an app currently, that may or may not be true 6 months from now. The problem myself and some others have with WS is that for a product that will remain stationary for 12 to 18 months (which is a good thing from an enterprise standpoint) it is based not on stable releases but old and out of date releases. Come October this year (at which point WS will still have 6 to 12 months before being revised with new stuff) Gnome 1.4 will be an embarrasment as a default desktop. Also consider that there will be a lot of other out of date stuff used if WS is indeed based on RH 7.* like Python (which is at 2.2 compared to the 1.5.2 used on RH 7.*). >programmer by day, but I don't know everything about it. However, I'm >sure that if someone were selling an application to the demographic that >is going to be buying RH EW, they can bundle their own gtk2 libraries or >even statically compile their app (since nothing on the OS is supposed >to be sharing them anyway). At which point why bother with Red Hat in the first place if the software vendors are going to have to provide all their own libraries anyway? -- Phoebe-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/phoebe-list
