Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Wednesday 14 March 2007 07:46 pm, Roland Mainz wrote: > > Depends on what "footprint" means. > > Sure, but this is becoming less important on the average embedded device, as > the storage and memory on small devices has grown substantially over the past > few years.
Still embedded applications should have a small(-er) runtime footprint. Smaller is (usually) better (and as I said we're going to do more work on the footprint part in ksh93 after the initial putback). [snip] > I'm not clear on the value to Solaris/OpenSolaris. Clearly there's value in > having the software, but it seems we have other priorities for OpenSolaris > that I would classify before a project like that...like KDE for instance! I'm > still running the older CCD KDE (3.1.1) on some machines, Stefan's build of > 3.3.1 on another, and I would like to get something more current as there has > been a lot of changes in some of the apps I use, such as KMail. Hopefully you > saw my message about that. Yes, the reply is in my Drafts/ folder... but I can't promise a reply today anymore since I am ~~28h awake and my brain already walks on it's theeth... ;-( ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) [EMAIL PROTECTED] \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;) _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
