Rainer J. H. Brandt wrote:
Chung Hang Christopher Chan writes:
Solaris offers stable interfaces back to a time when
Mac OS X did not exist.
Great. That was then. This is now. Now you have a
No, that is now.
_Today_ you can use those stable interfaces.
_Today_ your ancient Solaris binaries will keep on running.
Not entirely true. Some major applications have required an upgrade to
run on Solaris 10. Try running some of the earlier versions of the Sunray
software on Solaris 10. I could list several more that I have run into
over the
years. Though the compatibility if infinitely better than other OS's out
there.
whole bunch of moving targets like qt-*, gtk-*, xorg-*
(hmm are they all desktop related?) and other cruft.
Right, and after recompiling 30+ libraries in an attempt
to build inkscape (which will fail anyway...), it becomes
obvious what stable interfaces are worth.
C++ is by default rubbish. On Solaris it is extremely painful.
Doug
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