On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Ben Walton <bwal...@opencsw.org> wrote: > > On Aug 5, 2013 2:44 PM, "Peter FELECAN" <pfele...@opencsw.org> wrote: >> >> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <mac...@opencsw.org> writes: >> >> > Our current support level for Solaris 9 is best effort: if a package >> > maintainer wishes to build a Solaris 9 package, they can go and do it, >> > but >> > it's optional. For this to be possible, the package building >> > infrastructure >> > must be fully operative on Solaris 9. If we stop maintaining the >> > infrastructure on Solaris 9, it will eventually break and Solaris 9 will >> > effectively stop being best effort and will start being completely >> > unsupported. >> > >> > Here are the two general options: >> > >> > 1. Don't do anything. When it breaks, it remains broken. We'll make an >> > announcement when this happens. >> > 2. Support a subset of packages for Solaris 9, such as cswclassutils, >> > and >> > GAR with friends. If it turns out to be too much effort, we stop >> > supporting >> > Solaris 9. >> > >> > What do we do? >> >> 1 definitely > > I agree with Peter.
Me too. I suspect that subset will be quite large, I had to stop building pkgutil for Solaris 8 because basically nothing worked in GAR for Solaris 8 and the same will happen to Solaris 9. It's a wasteful effort, Solaris 10 was released in 2005... _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list maintainers@lists.opencsw.org https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
