Re: Gentle Question

I understand the ABI importance. Thats is something generic. What I'm 
trying to say is GCC's ABI is not that bad. Even if it not very 
consistent among the releases it is widely used to build some of the 
world greatest and biggest software.

This a community mailing list (for a Open Source project.), Things 
should go in a Logical manner. Not just putting end to end to every 
story. If you put end to all of it what is left for discussion.

Kunal

Stefan Teleman wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 12:35 PM, Kunal Deo <[email protected]> wrote:
>   
>> I dont understand the point in giving so much importance to ABI.
>>     
>
> That is a frightening statement to make on a technical mailing list.
>
> Especially when it is followed by a technical essay about "application
> portability".
>
>   
>> Think once again. GCC is being used to for so many software around the world
>>  including KDE (yes officially KDE is made for Linux and that too using
>>  GCC). Apache, Playstation, Symbian and many more. If you think of
>>  portability in mind remember GCC is the answer.
>>     
>
> You are a Sun employee.
>
> Do I need to remind you that Apache on Solaris is built with Sun Studio ?
>
>   
>>  > What to play catchup with is the choice to be made.
>>  > KDE + huge set of KSoftwares is good bit of work to port and then keep
>>  > up to date with the future *ongoing* updates.
>>     
>
> *THIS* project and the corresponding
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/kde/ project
>
> are about KDE4 Solaris built with Sun Studio.
>
> End Of Story.
>
> You are free to build KDE3 or KDE4 with GCC on your own.
>
> --Stefan
>
>   

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