--- "Rainer J. H. Brandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > It's a major plus for OpenSolaris as compared to > most other OSes.
I don't see those going away. We are not talking about changing ABI's now are we? > > > 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. qt-*, gtk-* and xorg-* are not interfaces. They are libraries. Adding this lot adds system libraries to the possible 'release breakages/differentiations'. They will not make a 3.x Solaris. They cannot be compared to the Redhat Linux 7.x -> Redhat Linux 8.0 -> Redhat Linux 9 ABI breakages. What I really want to say is that the current CD release model of Solaris Express is retarded. There are few if any breakage between 'releases'. These should really be just updates and I hope the new Open Solaris distribution will allow updating via the network. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
