On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 10:04:03PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Samba is a project written specifically to interoperate with Windows,
> because the developers involved felt that interoperability was more
> important than the flaws in the SMB spec (to the extent that any such
> thing existed).
My point is that interoperability between the Free desktops is more
important than the flaws in any of the specs involved! Our applications are
all going to run on the same machines, so we should strife for an integrated
experience rather than gratuitous incompatibilities due to differences of
opinion on the letter of a spec.
And the people working on Gnome feel that adopting a bad specification
would cost more than enhancing this interoperability would provide. You
can't force them to feel otherwise, so your options are either to modify
the spec in such a way that everyone's happy or to just get on with the
rest of your life.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59(a)srcf.ucam.org