hey, remember the platform?

[Adam Jackson]

it's been a while since the last missive about this.  here's some misguided 
nonsense I said last time around, and possibly equally misguided current 
opinion:

> However, I also got from xdc that the package set under consideration for
> the platform is: fontconfig, gstreamer, dbus, hal, cairo, maybe pkgconfig. 

fontconfig and pkgconfig still sound like good ideas.  dbus and gstreamer, i'd 
need to see some 1.0 numbers and an adoption level that's more than just 
"well automounting CDs kinda works", but they seem to have high enough 
interest level to be included some day.

hal i'm less certain about, since to my knowledge no one is using it in any 
real sense outside of linux.  and cairo isn't being used in KDE, so it's 
right out of any list of de-facto adopted code.

are there other packages we should be considering here?

> - you anticipate being baked by (say) June

heh, that didn't happen.

> I expect the specs list to be much longer than the software list here.

indeed, five specs and zero software packages.  the menu and wm specs have had 
revision bumps since april; should we do a specs 1.1 to reflect that?  have 
any other specs reached a high enough adoption level to warrant a specs 2?

i don't expect any sort of decision on this before DDC/OLS, and possibly not 
until after Xorg 7.0.  just trying to get an idea of where people are at.

- ajax
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