On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:38:05PM +1200, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > On Tuesday 23 May 2006 18:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Within Sun's software developement, we use something called "binding" > > >determined by our architectural review committees to help determine > > >the appropriate releases such a change can target. Nevada > > > (OpenSolaris/S11) is micro binding right now - so bigger changes can go > > > in there that cannot go into an update (which are "patch" binding, since > > > the updates are essentially made up of patches). It's all based on > > > interface changes & ability to backout or not use a feature. > > > > I thought Nevada was back to minor already (that's why we switched from > > 5.10.1 to 5.11 at some point) > > Hmm, my understanding was that Nevada would be the basis on which Solaris 11 > would be based upon; and by the time Solaris 11 shipped, all the components > (barring some drivers) will be completely opensource; xorg for the xserver, > opensolaris for the core and JDS for the default desktop.
Which would imply a "Minor" release; 5.10 is Solaris 10, and 5.11 will (presumably; marketing has futzed with this before) be Solaris 11. Cheers, - jonathan -- Jonathan Adams, Solaris Kernel Development _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
