On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:26 PM, Moinak Ghosh <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good points from everybody. Adding a few tidbits of my own. Just to clarify > I'm no SVR4 lover having had worked on the messy codebase during my stint > at SUN. It had good ideas but the age of the code was showing. > > BTW to repeat once more so that people do not misunderstand. SVR4 principles were solid, codebase was somewhat messy. It is feasible to provide a solution that retained compatibility while utilizing a more modern core. It is too heavily centered around scripting. The biggest drawback with the SVR4 package tools is that there is no native notion of a package upgrade. There is only overwrite capability. So this is one thing that caused the messy patching to come into the picture. Regards, Moinak. -- ================================ http://moinakg.wordpress.com/ http://moinakg.github.com/pcompress/ ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
