Hi Liane, Liane Praza p??e v p? 15. 01. 2010 v 06:45 -0800: > Milan Jurik wrote: > > Why not obsolete /var/svc/manifest? Has I-team some usage of it in the > > future except backward compatibility? > > From a very long-term interface stability goal point of view, Obsolete, > but not EOFed would be OK. SMF would need to support it for quite some > time though, so it would just be a paperwork step. > > The only explicit issue I see with marking it obsolete is that there is > no customer alternative available, especially in older releases of S10. > Customers and ISVs who need their software to work across all releases > which have SMF would need to continue knowingly use /var/svc/manifest. > (Most non-OS services are not particularly vulnerable to the bugs that > can crop up from being part of late manifest import.) > > Through the Obsolete, I wouldn't want to give our customers/ISVs the > impression that we were not going to support their multi-release > deliveries of SMF services. So I'm thinking it's premature. >
OK, thank you for the answer. Best regards, Milan
