On Thu, 17 May 2007, James Carlson wrote:
Ian Murdock writes:
(And, once again, I'm not sure I see anything here that isn't fixed
with a "Solaris classic" environment.)
Do we force future project teams to test in both environments?
Eh? Ian -- if the above is a valid question, then my brain is suffering some
_major_ dissonance here. And I went back and read your original posts too.
If what we're talking about is a reference distro designed by the
OpenSolaris community, as guided by the OGB (we are aren't we?), then the
above question is totally irrelevant at this stage (and probably won't be
for years). How could Sun Microsystems possibly consider whether it will
want to force project teams to test in the new environment? Sun doesn't
even know what kind of reference distro the OpenSolaris community will
design yet.
From where I sit, questions of design-origin -- especially locus of
control of the design -- are at the root of a almost all the turmoil in
the discussions here.
Make no mistake. I believe -- as everyone does -- that it's perfectly fine
for many/most OpenSolaris projects to be totally Sun-derived,
Sun-designed. But heavan forbid, not THIS one -- the one that wants to be
the OpenSolaris community blessed reference distro.
Eric
If not, then one of those environments will just rot over time.
Things will fail to work right in one of the environments and, quite
likely, nobody will care because supporting both is not one of the
requirements.
If we do force it, then this proposal is a tax that is paid by all
project teams for the benefit of those who feel that the choice is
necessary. It's in addition to the heavy burden posed by past
projects that have added such multiplicative complexity to the system.
(There's a litany of these, including diskless and Zones.)
I'm not sure if it's really worth the effort, but I think we need to
be clear on what the effects will be. One of them will undoubtedly be
making development slower and more costly than it is today.
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