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

[Peter FELECAN]

James Lee <james at opencsw.org> writes:

> On 25/03/10, 09:15:51, 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.
>
> QED.  It's still not Solaris rev specific.

Just to paraphrase you: "Not so fast" to declare QED... We have this
issue because the Solaris 8, and maybe 9, are old, 20th century clunkers
which does not provide up to date 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.
>
> Correct and the action depends on desire and opportunity.  We can't
> decide to release stable if the opportunity is not there because it is
> not stable and there seems no desire to create the opportunity.  This
> is unrelated to Solaris 8 as the packages are currently similar across
> revs.

I agree on this. However, I must observe that the same kind of
discussions brought us to the split. Note that I'm not proposing a split.

Evolve to Revolve
-- 
Peter