[csw-maintainers] Solaris Studio vs GCC

Peter Bonivart bonivart at opencsw.org
Sun Mar 18 15:30:42 CET 2012


Great to hear from you again James.

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 2:17 PM, James Lee <james at opencsw.org> wrote:
> *Also* using cc contributes to software by excluding any particular
> compiler's quirks and extensions thus ensuring software's freedom and
> increasing cooperation.

So we should make it harder on ourselves for the greater good? Isn't
that what we're already doing by using Solaris in a world of Linux?
How much self-inflicted pain is enough?

If we consider lowering the bar we may get more active maintainers
which is critical to _this_ project.

/peter


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