[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

[Alexander Pyhalov]

Apostolos Syropoulos via openindiana-discuss писал 16.09.2014 23:24:
> Hello,
> 
> I am not really following every detail of the OpenSXCE debate but I 
> would
> like to say that we are definitely a very small community and we cannot
> afford to lose anyone who can contribute to the development of the 
> operating
> system and the desktop environment. In addition, since we are a really 
> small
> community it makes no sense to have many different distributions. This
> fragments the community and so we lose energy that could be used to
> 
> provide drivers etc. For example, we still do not have a driver for
> USB3 devices, we cannot use the ATI drivers since kernel mode setting
> is not there, yet... And instead of fighting about nonsense, we should
> create at least two groups to port and maintain OpenOffice (it works 
> partially)
> 
> andChrome and why not Firefox (we cannot rely on Oracle to compile it 
> with
> their outdated compiler!).
> 

Hello.
Agree for every point.

On collaboration with OpenSXCE developers.
We (OI /hipster) currently don't support SPARC in any way.
We disagree with OpenSXCE on package manager and build systems.
I appreciate Martin's work, I understand that it requires a lot of work, 
time
and dedication, but I don't see an easy way to collaborate between OI 
/hipster
and OpenSXCE. IIRC, the only man who contributed SPARC-related patches 
to oi-userland
was David Mackay. And to support SPARC port we need
1) some volunteer to do it,
2) some build systems.
I've stated several times, that I personally don't see any interest in 
supporting SPARC.
However, if someone interested in this, we will gladly appreciate 
SPARC-related changes to oi-userland.

Other sort of collaboration can consist in exchanging patches for some 
software, as we
collaborate with other parties building software for illumos and 
Solaris.
This is also productive and interesting to us. But as
we haven't seen code drops from OpenSXCE, it's impossible now.
Note: I mean no offence, just state the current state.

On Firefox - we have gcc-compiled firefox port. However, even having 
Oracle firefox
patches from solaris-desktop-spec-files, it takes too much time to add 
gcc support and build new
FF releases. Currently we have FF 24 in oi-userland (gcc-compiled).
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