On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 10:46:32AM -0800, Chris Quenelle wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Of course, looking at it from the point of view of how many Sun Studio > > versions we've used in Solaris 10 and Nevada development, we know that > > multiple versions are likely going to be needed. But at least for > > Solaris consolidations a single bundled version translates into: more > > build flag days or a need to use the unbunbled versions. > > Since Solaris consolidations will not be using the bundled > compiler, I don't see how it causes flag days for anyone. > They have to use a specially patched version of SS12 that > we deliver as a tarball.
Thanks. I'm convinced that multiple versions of the bundled compilers are not needed (assuming that any relevant bits needed at runtime are stable enough to be Committed interfaces; compile-time interfaces can be Uncommitted I think). Of course, I'm not an ARC member, so my blessing is not necessarily meaningful :)
