On 11/29/10 15:23, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Afantee Lee wrote:
Does the user program compiled on Open-Solaris run on Solaris, or verse-visa ?
In another word, Are Open-Solaris and Solaris compatible at user-program level ?
The OpenSolaris distros fall between Solaris 10 and 11 in the release timeline.
Programs built on older releases can generally run on newer ones, but those
built on newer releases often won't work on older ones since they may rely
on features not in the older release.
Thus programs built on Solaris 8, 9, or 10 should run on OpenSolaris or
Solaris 11. Programs built on OpenSolaris should run on Solaris 11, but
not 8, 9, or 10. Programs built on Solaris 11 will probably not run on
Solaris 8, 9, 10 or OpenSolaris.
Just threw my mail away because Alan's pretty much covers it.
One important thing to keep in mind, though, is that OpenSolaris is
the *development* tree for the next Solaris release. It is possible
for there to be bugs in OpenSolaris that prevent running software
originally built on Solaris 10, and new functionality in OpenSolaris
could change or disappear before Solaris 11 is released (so software
built today on OpenSolaris might fail to run on Solaris 11). That
said, even during development we try to stick to the constraints Alan
described.
Dave
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