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. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
