On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:39:45AM +0100, Gary Law wrote: > 2009/6/25 Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]>: > > Why? Usually it is no different packaging for Solaris 9 than for > > Solaris 8. Why drop Solaris 8 without the need? If there is *any* > > problem on Solaris 8 it is of course ok to just release for Solaris 9. > > The problem for me is testing. Rolling out something that compiles is > all very well and good, but if it's not tested on Sol8 then it might > be buggy, and might in fact be worse than the old Sol8 version we have > in the archive. Finding the hardware/virtualisation kit for testing > for Sol8 is hard enough now, and it's only going to get worse.
for people who run 8, even having "untested packages" is better than "having no packages". _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
