[csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front

Peter FELECAN pfelecan at opencsw.org
Thu Mar 25 10:15:51 CET 2010


James Lee <james at opencsw.org> writes:

> On 24/03/10, 09:26:19, Peter FELECAN <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote regarding
> Re: [csw-maintainers] bad news on the CSW X11 front:
>
>> Well, this bring us to the same decision, discussed in another thread:
>> to abandon Solaris 8 and, if it seems that the X11 version supplied with
>> it is not satisfactory, abandon Solaris 9 also.
>
> Not so fast, this topic (OpenGL) affects Solaris 10 too.

It does not if we don't use our brew of X11.

>> Procrastinating on this issue is not to the benefit of our project. And,
>> please, please, don't bring up, again, the theme of an hypothetical
>> stable release! I'm not anymore an agnostic but an unbeliever of this
>> myth.
>
> The irony of this is that it is stable and the desire to leave a Solaris
> 8 collection in a usable state that is being blocked by X11, so
> preventing moving on with grace.

Ironic or not this is stagnating since more than a year, isn't it?

All of the above shows the incapacity of our project to make a decision.

Drop that clunkers!
-- 
Peter


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