Mike Ditto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
If you like to allow people to install software via packaging tools, you
need to agree on a single package format or you would need to call other
distros different from "Solaris".
> > 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.
I believe that we should not stick to all administrative interfaces from Sun but
we need to have some basic compatibility and we need to find out what needs to
be compatible and what may be different whithout instantly causing problems.
> 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.
Or which software may be usable on this distro.
Jörg
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