intel driver will only compile with gcc

[Kean Johnston]

> I think you're mistaking "open" for "portable" here.  Another fun
> exercise is to look at the list of platforms supported by 6.x and see
> how many of those you can get your hands on today and actually get
> running on modern, available hardware.  And for those where you can,
Thats abit of a catch-22 :) Part of the problem is that in order to
run on modern hardware, you need modern video drivers. That means
a modern X server.

> platform, just saying portability over anything, is a pretty misguided
> design principle, and will certainly have a negative impact on code
> quality.
In general, I have found the reverse to be true. If code has a strong
eye towards portability, it means the developers tend to code slower
because they have to research or think more about whether or not a
given function will break portability. That extra care and concern for
the code you write tends to produce better, not worse code. But thats
just my experience. Yours may well differ.

Kean