Nicolas Williams wrote: > On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 01:37:13PM -0700, George Vasick wrote: >> Alan Coopersmith wrote: >>> You really need both 4.3.2 & 4.3.3? >> Solaris freezes on a specific release for its build compiler. What >> happens when they are on 4.x.y and we want to release 4.x.z? > > Just because the ONNV and/or other consolidations do that doesn't mean > that Solaris itself must ship with N versions of GCC and/or Sun Studio. > > 4.3.2 should just become a set of unbundled pkgs; 4.3.3 should be what > you get by default. Folks who need 4.3.2 could go get it from a > special repo where old software goes to die.
This is more or less how OpensSolaris works. The standard install is pretty small, i.e. less than about 750MB and it fits on one CD. In particular, no compilers are installed by default. Once the system comes up, users just fire up the package manager and pick whatever additional packages they wish to install. In 2009.06, both gcc 3.4.3 and gcc 4.3.2 are available. George > > Nico
