On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 13:06 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Orvar Korvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In my opionion, Blastwave and the likes, should be high on Sun's > priority list. It seems that to compile a program under Solaris takes > years of experience. Sun and you all guys are doing a terrific job > with Solaris, and I and many more really appreciate what you do. Btw, > Linux sucks! :o) I dont like Linus and as Stallman said: "well, Im not > the one who wants to call GNU for Stallmanix". It seems hodge-podge > helter skelter. Not stable APIs and stuff. Thanx for your time reading > my first steps into the Solaris world, on my way on becoming an > expert!! ;o) > > Software that has been well written for portability does not givee > problems > whencompiling on Solaris. > > In former times, all software did follow Open Source ethics and was > made > cleanly portable to all important platforms. > > I really hope that the free availability of Solaris and Sun Studio > will > change things back to a state we did have in the early 1990s where > software > usually did work out of the box on SunOS.
Meh, generally speaking Solaris + GCC, and everything works nicely out of the box. I hardly blame OSS developers for not testing their software with Solaris or Sun's own compilers on their chosen platform given that Sun demands registration - for what purpose? buggered if I know - and the fact that it gives no real benefits to the programmer other than the nice warm fuzzy feeling that his or her code has been blessed by Sun Studio. Matt _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
