Doug Scott writes: > James Carlson wrote: > > Yes, but that misses the point. We don't just write stability notices > > into our man pages for our health. They actually do mean something > > about what we're promising to deliver > Luckily df(1M) is lacking such a "stability notice". Is this a bug :)
By default, such legacy things are assumed to be "Stable." > I am all for compatibility, but we now have to work out what is todays > standard, and how far we go preserving compatibility with older > standards. I have been through the change-over from SunOS 4.1.x to > Solaris 2.X (an extremely large change). Many of us suffered through that. By the way, that was the last Major release of Solaris. All since have been Minors and patches, with the exception of one Micro. This is by design. > While the little things at > first were a real pain "different ps command", in the end I got use to > the differences. All applications/scripts etc we needed to change came > out through testing, and were fixed. The only thing we could bring over > was the Software to talk DEC LAT. Too bad eh! :) Even that might have been solvable, at least back when www.meridian.com was a software company. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
