[ANN] hgview - a pygtk-based clone of hgk

[TK Soh]

On 2/1/07, Sean Dague <sean at dague.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 07:10:20PM -0600, TK Soh wrote:
> > On 2/1/07, Christopher Vance <cjsvance at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >On 2/2/07, Ludovic.Aubry <ludal at logilab.fr> wrote:
> > >> Because I know the toolkit very well is the main reason.
> > >
> > >The result is useless to some of us.
> >
> > Unfortunately, I need to agree on this one.
> >
> > I've been spending the last two weeks or so trying to build gtk and
> > the gang on Solaris 2.6 with no success. AFAIAC, any GUI tools will
> > simply has to be able to run on Solaris 2.6 (and HP-UX, perhaps). For
> > now, Tkinter (yeah, I know it's old) seems to be the only option
> > available.
>
> Do you realize that Solaris 2.6 went end of life 6 months ago
> (http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/solaris/solaris_vintage_eol_5.2005.xml)?
>
> Requiring all features to support operating system releases no longer
> supported by their commercial vendor seems like an artificially high barrier
> to entry.

Supported or not, they are here to stay. If you think Solaris 2.6 is
old, I still have a whole bunch of Sun boxes running SunOS 4.1.3.