Joerg Schilling wrote: > Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at Sun.COM> wrote: > >>>> The old shell is now: >>>> /usr/has/bin/sh >>> Well, then Sun seems to start an incompatible fork from OpenSolaris. >>> >> Sigh. We have made no statements about compatibility with anything, >> either past or future, in the preview releases. It's an experiment. > > Sun did make statements about long term compatibility and many Solaris users > did stay with Solaris _because_ of these statements. >
And we've done nothing to abrogate those statements, as Indiana is not Solaris. The distance from Indiana to the next version of Solaris is quite large, and will require resolving any compatibility issues in a satisfactory fashion. >> The negativity some of you have towards experiments just amazes me >> sometimes. > > You may like to call it "negativity" from the view you have on the problem. > > I call it the result of 26 years of experiences with UNIX hacking. > You're not the only one here with experience, Joerg. We absolutely recognize there are limitations of the testing that Indiana will cause, but given that, would like some real-world data to validate or invalidate our assumptions about the people Indiana does reach. Clearly, we differ on the usefulness of the experiment. We're hoping lots of people participate and allow us to draw some conclusions within that population. We may even try to run some other experiments with other populations, I don't know yet. But we are going to experiment, just like you do with Schillix. Continuing to harangue us for that really isn't that productive. Dave
