begin quoting Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. as of Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 03:05:43AM -0800: > On Mar 24, 2005, at 12:01 AM, Stewart Stremler wrote: > >Runtime compatible, our just source-compatible? > > Runtime, baby. Binaries from Solaris 2.6 will run on Solaris 2.9. Whoohoo.
I mostly have experience with the jump from 2.5.1 to 2.8. That was a little rocky. > >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. Amen. -Stewart "Turning into a fan of Lentvorksi's design sense" Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
