[kde-solaris] Gentle Question

[Stefan Teleman]

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Kunal Deo <Kunal.Deo at sun.com> wrote:
> I dont understand the point in giving so much importance to ABI.

That is a frightening statement to make on a technical mailing list.

Especially when it is followed by a technical essay about "application
portability".

> Think once again. GCC is being used to for so many software around the world
>  including KDE (yes officially KDE is made for Linux and that too using
>  GCC). Apache, Playstation, Symbian and many more. If you think of
>  portability in mind remember GCC is the answer.

You are a Sun employee.

Do I need to remind you that Apache on Solaris is built with Sun Studio ?

>  > What to play catchup with is the choice to be made.
>  > KDE + huge set of KSoftwares is good bit of work to port and then keep
>  > up to date with the future *ongoing* updates.

*THIS* project and the corresponding

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/kde/ project

are about KDE4 Solaris built with Sun Studio.

End Of Story.

You are free to build KDE3 or KDE4 with GCC on your own.

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman
KDE e.V.
stefan.teleman at gmail.com