On Mar 24, 2005, at 12:01 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote:
The simple fact that someone, somewhere has a set of programs that
*must work* with the new version with no changes. The fact that
someone tested this. The fact that I can get the *exact* configuration
as I had 4 years ago *and it still works*.
Runtime compatible, our just source-compatible?
Runtime, baby. Binaries from Solaris 2.6 will run on Solaris 2.9.
Shims, or thinking ahead in the design?
Both. You can't get everything right, but if you make sure that the new stuff is a superset of the old stuff (or that there is at least *some* way of implementing the old stuff), the shims don't have to be too complex.
-a
-- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
