On 16/05/07, Doug Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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 :(
That's a game you will never win though. Other platforms that don't adhere to a specific standard (and even ones that do) can decide tomorrow that /bin/sh is something completely different and then you have breakage again.
> 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.
Yet, I know most of them would agree that the stability within the Solaris platform is still far better and greater than almost any other one. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
