GTK Ticked-Off

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth burns:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 11:20, Collins Richey wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe you should widen your field of vision. 
> 
> The problem is, my field of vision *is* much wider - wider than OS
> software. This really is one of the major limitations to the acceptance
> of open source solutions by leading system integrators and IT service
> companies. Thus the reason for my rant.
> 
> In this case, we're not talking about a personal media-player. We're
> talking about fairly serious development tools that can affect hundreds
> of software projects and dependent applications. 
> 
> I work for one of the largest IT services company in North America.
> Things like this are invariably considered fairly serious problems in
> product selection/due diligence evaluations for a client's architecture.
> It makes it harder to sell Linux and common Linux applications.

You can always pick a version that you'll support and stick with 
that for N years. But, as I've said elsewhere, I quite agree that
API stability is a best practice that many open source projects
would do well to adopt. Some do; most don't, yet.

A bigger issue for me is reliance on one toolkit, such as GTK+ or
Qt, to the exclusion of others, for GUI interfaces.

> For Linux to be accepted across the board, major issues such as this
> need to be addressed. It's OK for small boutique software offerings. But
> if Linux wants to play seriously at the enterprise level, there is a
> certain amount of discipline that will have to be adopted by the
> community.

Nod.

Kurt
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