I doubt Oracle will care about binary compatibility going forward, and I half expect us not to see any more separate Solaris releases after Solaris 11. If it is not in Exadata, I don't think Oracle cares.
-- Garrett D'Amore On May 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, "Alasdair Lumsden" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Guido, > > On 23 May 2011, at 21:29, Guido Berhoerster wrote: > >> * Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> [2011-05-23 17:22]: >>> This is why the gcc version supplied will be fixed for a 5+ year period - I >>> doubt we'll be changing the gcc version any time soon after doing this. >>> When we do update to a newer GCC or to llvm/clang or another compiler, we >>> can continue to supply the library, via a compat package. >> >> Currently x.0 gcc releases seem to be supported for about two >> years [1], that means gcc 4.5 will likely be supported until >> around April 2012. Even if we adopt 4.6.0 now, we will be on our >> own with it for three years. This is not so much a problem for >> large Linux vendors like Redhat or SUSE which have inhouse >> capacities/expertise to deal with any issues on their own but I >> know it has been biting Projects like FreeBSD and given our >> current manpower and capacities I don't see how we can deal with >> that. > > Unfortunately I don't think we have a choice in the matter. Unless richlowe's > patches can be added to llvm/clang easily then we have to take a pragmatic > approach. > > At some point over the next 2 years Oracle will switch to gcc 4.x, and when > they do I imagine it'll go into userland-gate, where we can pick up the > patches they integrate. I seem to remember reading something about gcc-4 > recently but I can't for the life of me remember where, perhaps I dreamt it. > We also have the patches available from the major distributions, and > primarily security patches are the major concern here. > > Lastly, if we're planning to use libc++ then thats one less component to > worry about. > > I don't view support as a massive headache, but I do appreciate it's > something we need to keep in mind. > > Cheers, > > Alasdair > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
