hey, remember the platform?

[Jeff Waugh]

<quote who="Chris Lee">

> We're not putting things in the platform in order to evangelize them.
> We're simply collecting things in the platform that are *already* used by
> the majority of the desktop projects - Mozilla, OpenOffice.org, KDE,
> GNOME, etc - and saying "These projects work well with this collection of
> software, and these versions of the projects comprise version X.Y of the
> fd.o Platform."

Hrm, note that Cairo is in use by the majority of desktop projects. I'm not
sure it would make sense to exclude it, given that it is rapidly becoming an
assumed part of Free desktop software infrastructure. It's not damaging or
controversial that one project doesn't use it; but pretty much everyone else
does. I think that warrants inclusion in the freedesktop.org platform.

- Jeff

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