James Carlson wrote:
Doug Scott writes:
Steve Stallion wrote:
Personally, I am not terribly worried about GNU/Linux users who have a
hard time moving over to Solaris.
So you prefer that Solaris always will have a much smaller community the
Linux?
If the choice really is between "change the default units for df
output" and "have a small community," then it's clear. I'd opt for
the latter.
I think we are in far more danger in losing out in breaking future (or
today's) scripts rather
than yesterdays. I run into many that I have to change from '#!/bin/sh"
to "#!/bin/bash"
to make work. I am far less worried about script breakage then C api's.
At least
with scripts, they can be modified. If you don't have the source, it
makes it difficult :(
We have no way of finding all the scripts that depend on details like
that, nor do any of our customers. The only thing we could do would
be to smoke 'em out of their caves: deliberately break the interface
(violating our stability promises
The interesting thing I find that many people (which just happen to be
your customers)
who have such concerns actually do a lot of testing to ensure that this
is not a problem.
In fact a lot are still using Solaris 8 & 9, and will not change until
Solaris 10 makes it
past their QA. The current compatibility while good is not a total
nirvana in the field,
and not universally trusted.
Doug
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