From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 6 12:36:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 044C044B for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:36:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-x233.google.com (mail-we0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 904C3185E for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 12:36:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f179.google.com with SMTP id q59so576887wes.38 for ; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:36:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=TEWEA5VQ1RDIXuF4g/olxDz03ePbNBEONDF+m6tajpA=; b=S7oAlYq8zHowikkWrgJ5YvQMHDCabJ4PLGegQUeqmMLy2TEp7QvkGdMSsAs3cdwnav +hjE0LaKgVK7DsLGhuOhH9l5PKVAmjvWxCYYGxZmNJCyBe2kq8FbripFVt0/mzy57EkK n9EC1B1cOGY29SEZuHvmhtXNkskJIBRc4brrdh5NIH1uY1ylt+zK1PBLNVyAkWonXJjj 4IGbd922eT3dSmn/QeTpc3Dmc3zos1G4Il2EMJkl/A44axQYq4RMZQ2ETtfTYPcBsKy/ eyM8J8uaR+LHQZsqSxPq1qvHCVmIJUj7IP4nNEWMiTbKn8t8CzvXYYjvOFmiuqOT8aFD lr2w== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.194.11.38 with SMTP id n6mr2830635wjb.25.1386333409943; Fri, 06 Dec 2013 04:36:49 -0800 (PST) Sender: fluca1978@gmail.com Received: by 10.194.44.6 with HTTP; Fri, 6 Dec 2013 04:36:49 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1386328855.3871.38.camel@debian> References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> <1386328855.3871.38.camel@debian> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2013 13:36:49 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 3V_SCbTqGMsJ1Cv-Av9lWbumhH0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 port? From: Luca Ferrari To: iijima yoshino Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 12:36:52 -0000 On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, iijima yoshino wrote: > And we could not request every developer to > put the portability No.1 when they try to write something. If I consider > about Linux/BSD, why don't Win/Mac/Solaries/Minix/Haiku/MenutOS... We do > everything for ourselves, then the others. With regard to the specific question, gnome3, I believe we are not asking developers to keep portability as their number one issue. They simply have broken portability by themselves. Gnome was used as the main desktop on OpenSolaris, that is not Linux. But deciding to got for a Linux-tied subsystem they have deliberately chosen not to be portable. Is this right or wrong? I don't care, but we cannot ask FreeBSD (or any other OS) developers to port gnome3 when the gnome community itself has decided to break. Of course, is there is interest, someone will port. Luca