On 4/3/07, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Steven Xie writes:
> Is this mean We should use Solaris original utilities under
> /usr/bin
> instead of posix ones under /usr/xpg/bin.
> It's really surprising. Well, we can live with it.
I wouldn't say that.
It comes down to engineering and marketing analysis. You (as a third
party software designer) will have to create minimum requirements for
your customers. If those minimum requirements include the SUNWxcu4
package, and you determine that your customers will accept that, then
that's fine. If you must do something different, then find out what
the customers will accept.
Simply taking someone else's word for what your customers will or
won't do is probably a mistake. It might be a helpful clue about a
potential problem you might face, but it also may just be FUD.
For what it's worth, SUNWxcu4 is in the SUNWCuser metacluster. It's
missing from only SUNWCreq and SUNWCrnet.
Not every customer relies on the install metaclusters and many of them
manually remove unused packages from their machines to jettison all
dead freight from their servers.
Our conclusion was that we cannot rely on SUNWxcu4 for our products
and have to seek alternative tools to handle multibyte locales.
Irek
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