Re: gnome developer docs - not sgml

["Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>]

In message <199811021916.LAA02483@snuffle.cygnus.com>, Tom Tromey writes:
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| >>>>> "Brandon" == Brandon S Allbery <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> writes:
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| > ok too bad for me then :(, i suppose this mean it is no more a goal
| > for gnome to compile on any major UNIX plateform ?)
| 
| Brandon> Apparently the FSF and associated developers have decided
| Brandon> (again) that GNU/<insert OS here> is the only platform.  :-(
| Brandon> For all intents and purposes GNOME is out of the running as a
| Brandon> GUI for any platform but Linux.
| 
| Did somebody say this?  I don't recall seeing it.  It has always been
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The claim is that it is to be portable everywhere.  Except that the claim is 
only valid for systems that have the entire circularly-referential GNU suite 
installed, and we've been told that that is how it is going to stay.  So it 
doesn't work on Solaris but does on "GNU/Solaris" which has all the GNU 
packages loaded.  (We're still trying to figure out if there are any GNUish 
packages that *don't* have to be installed for it to work.)

It would be really nice if the "fix" for most problems on non-Linux were *not* 
along the lines of "install GNU blahblah".  If I'm going to run all GNU 
utilities it's easier to install UltraPenguin than it is to make Solaris 
"GNU-worthy".  Except that I have to run Solaris, so I have to turn it into 
"GNU/Solaris"....