Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people believe
> > that this is the one and only.
> >
>
> FWIW, as a third party that develops software on Solaris, I would
> welcome an 'OpenSolaris Reference' distribution.
This would cause problems too.
It is better to define a binary compatibility guideline and to have a test
for compatibility. We, the community of people who create distributions
in addition need to take care that this test is complete enough.
To understand this problem: If I did not push Sun to verify /usr/bin/tar
against _my_ POSIX compliance test, Sun tar would still not create/read
POSIX.1-1988 compliant archives although it did pass the OpenGroup tests.
Note that if a distribution _adds_ this to the compatibility definitions,
this would make this distro unsuitable as a reference. For the same reason,
I need to correct you as I believe that believe that "Sun OpenSolaris" could
be a reference distribution. "Sun OpenSolaris" would most likely include
more software than the reference requires and thus make it unsuitable as a
reference.
A reference distro has no less _and_ no more than the interface definition
and grants users that software compiled on that distro to run on any
other compatible distro.
Jörg
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