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... ;-(

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Bye,
Roland

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