[csw-maintainers] Solaris Studio vs GCC

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi folks,

Am 18.03.2012 um 15:30 schrieb Peter Bonivart:
> 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.

Every maintainer can use gcc any time as he wants, by own preference or
when problems occur. Having Sun Studio to aid porting is a good thing IMHO.

Maybe we should refocus to bringing an environment to users where they
can easily build their own modules for Perl and Ruby.


Best regards

  -- Dago

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