[osol-discuss] [kde-discuss] Display Managers

[Stefan Teleman]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>> You may be remembering the discussions about why Sun chose GNOME/GTK over
>> KDE/Qt - and for the primary development GUI toolkit, that was an issue, but
>> for additional software that's provided as an option, or software that's being
>> used like kdm, but not offered as a developement kit to build on, it shouldn't
>> be an obstacle.   (It was also much more of an issue when the GNOME vs. KDE
>> decision was made 8 years ago at Sun, since the choice was between $3000
>> Sun C++ and $0 g++ - but now that Sun C++ is also free, the price is no
>> longer a barrier to usage/adoption.)
> 
> So you would propose to create SS compiled libraries and tell users to also use
> Sun Studio if they like to use the libs? OK, if the price/availability 
> was the main reason, this looks different now.

That, and the other technical aspect: any Sun customer who has developed 
in-house C++ libraries, and has built them with any version of 
Workshop/Forte/Studio supporting Version 5 of the Sun C++ ABI, will be able to 
link and use these in-house libraries, and have the expectation that they will 
Just Work(TM).

I may run the risk of sounding like a broken record, but, in the world of C++ 
Compilers, maintaining C++ ABI compatibility across 7 different compiler 
releases is a rare, and remarkable technical feat.

--Stefan

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Stefan Teleman
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Stefan.Teleman at Sun.COM