Doug Scott wrote:
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.
Sun Ray broke because it used interfaces that weren't only not
Stable, they weren't even documented. (I know I broke it at
least once in Solaris 10 development by changing Xsun internals
I thought no one else could possibly be using and knew we had
never documented or claimed were anything but private to the
X server.) Solaris doesn't guarantee that nothing will ever
change, just that we won't break things we said were Stable
without a damn good reason and advanced warning.
For those who want a higher level introduction to the Solaris
compatibility philosophy, I recommend this recent ACM Queue article:
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=428
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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