Joerg Schilling wrote:
Dave Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not sure what an "OpenSolaris compliant" sticker would be designed
to achieve, though, or why SVR4 packages are necessarily a part of it.
Well I hope that the proliferation of OpenSolaris-based distros doesn't
create a proliferation of binary/packaging compatibility standards
for off-the-shelf and downloadable software.
OK, let us call it "Solaris compliant". People like to know whether
things that work on Sun Solaris would also work on an OpenSolaris based distro.
So "Solaris compatible" is one ABI/packaging standard that a distro can offer.
(Actually it should be a particular release, like "Solaris 10 compatible".)
There may be room for other ABI/packaging standards, too (but as I said, not
too many). For example, I'd be interested in a "reduced historical
compatibility" OpenSolaris ABI that is willing to forgo all compatibility
with system administration interfaces and other expensive burdens and maybe
even use new packaging formats, such that this new ABI could be supported by
future releases of Sun Solaris as well as alternative OpenSolaris distros
that might or might not choose to implement the "Solaris 10" ABI.
But if we expect to buy or download pre-packaged software there needs to be
some kind of "virtual sticker" for each ABI that lets us know whether the
software and the OS work together.
-=] Mike [=-
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