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

[James Lee]

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.


> 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.



James.