Martin Bochnig wrote:
> Alan, list: I started messing with the pkgdefs only 4 days ago. Many things
> had changed in the meantime (since April). I don't get everything perfect in
> a hurry. But I dislike imperfectness. Hence the deferral. Especially the
> SUNWxorg-mesa pkg is not as good as I would like it to be.
> And additionally I merged in misc. new clients and libs and fonts and .pc
> files. Wich has lead to many unanswered questions (see your prev. mail).
> Another factor: At first many things weren't working/weren't available on/for
> sparc. Now they *are* present (e.g. Mesa***, all the input drivers). This
> suggests moving from "prototype_[com|i386|sparc]" to one common "prototype"
> file for almost all SUNWxorg* packages (via your predefined $plat_64
> variable, in order to not being required to explicitly name ISA-specific
> names in a common prototype file).
>
> What do you want me to do?
> Instant release?
> Or perfect solution?
It's software - it will never be perfect. What it needs is to
be good enough for the purpose it's being used for - initially,
Project FOX is intended to be a way for us to all collaborate,
so it needs to be good enough for others to be able to work on
it, but not yet work perfectly - as time goes, it will get better
to the point it's ready for a wider audience to use, and so on.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
