[desktop-discuss] Multimedia Improvements in OpenSolaris

[Brian Cameron]

Richard:

> True, although depending on their volatility and application dependency
> specifically on old versions, some of those interfaces
> have other benefits; I'm sure there are a lot of other apps that use
> wxwidgets for example.  I can think of something right off the top of my
> head that can save cell phone contact lists and such, that uses wxpython
> (which is unfortunately a _pain_ to get built on Solaris last I tried).

Indeed.  I was just using wxwidgets as an example.  I wasn't trying to
suggest that Sun would never consider brining these interfaces into
Solaris.  Though, the fact that wxwidgets exposes C++ interfaces does
make it more of a challenge to consider.

Brian