On 2010-03-16 16:50, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
Hi,
I am currently working on an updated glib and have the
behavious that on Solaris 8 i386 a couple of tests fail,
most certainly due to threading issues. As glib is quite
fundamental and the issues are related to the operating
system and we have already voted to support Solaris 8
on a best effort basis it may really be time now to
completely drop it. Thoughts?
The number of people running Solaris 8 should be few today.
The only reason for running Solaris 8 is if you have a sun4d machine or
have some driver or application that doesn't work on Solaris 9.
If you are running x86, I haven't yet found any machine that can run
Solaris 8 but not Solaris 10.
Also, working as a consultant, the only ones running something older
than Solaris 9 I've come across the past two years, have either been
sent to the grave or are actually running something older than Solaris 8
(one is running 2.6 due to a driver issue).
Jumping to Solaris 9 will let us use SOS12 in a supported way (even
though Sun might consider SOS12 unsupported, haven't taken a look at
that), which will make life a lot easier for us since SOS12 have a lot
of new functionality which makes porting code from GCC/Linux easier (a
lot less ifdefs needed).
My take on it is: lets freeze the Solaris 8 trail, but keep it as a
legacy trail for those still running Solaris 8. Bug fixes to that trail
is only done if the maintainer chooses so.
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