On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Shawn Walker wrote: > On 22/06/07, BVK Chaitanya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Are Solaris Express and Nexenta compatible today? I.e., can you build >> > a package on Solaris Express and install it on Nexenta and vice versa >> > without any concern about whether something might break? -ian >> >> Can you tell us how Indiana will solve it anyway? > > In theory, by having a reference platform. But that doesn't actually > solve the problem. People can always create incompatible > distributions. > > The theory is that by having a reference distribution, no one will > want to deviate from the reference in incompatible ways because they > value compatibility.
Shawn -- Well put. This also suggests the following notion which I find really interesting: To the extent Solaris 10/11 (SunOS 5.x) _is_ a reference platform today, that theory doesn't seem to be holding up in the Nexenta case! Eric _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
