Shawn Walker wrote:
On Jan 4, 2010, at 7:10 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
Volker A. Brandt wrote:
Happy new year every1!
130 is the final SXCE release planned though, as previously announced.
Which is too bad, really. Maybe the infrastructure to build SXCE
can be kept in place a little bit longer. The final release of SXCE
could then be cut in sync with the official OS 2010.02 release.
The problem is it's dividing our attention - by ending SXCE at 130, that
concentrates all testing and development on OpenSolaris for builds 131-136
for the OpenSolaris 2010.03 release. And once ON converts it's gate to
build IPS packages instead of SVR4, it won't be possible to build SXCE
anymore, since they're not planning on maintaining two sets of packaging
metadata in the ON gate.
It would have been nice to have held off killing SXCE until there was a
migration path to OpenSolaris....
Sure, but realistically, it isn't cost or resource effective. SXCE releases
are all about testing. Users that need something stable and supported should
be either running the release versions of Solaris 10 or OpenSolaris 200x.
Oh I agree, but I bet there's a lot of us who have been using, live
upgrading, testing and providing feedback on SXCE since it was a stroppy
teenager and haven't made the leap into the OpenSolaris realm. It's
been too stable for its own good.
--
Ian.
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