On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 01:39:38PM +0100, Albert White wrote: > Now I love the idea of getting rid of scripts. Even when a developer writes > a perfect script for their application it can break when some new feature > is introduced to the OS - zones being the best example; so getting rid of > that possibility seems great.
True, if we manage to eliminate scripting altogether. Since IPS is going to allow essentially arbitrary scripts to be triggered using SMF, I'm not sure how future-proof (for lack of a better word) this'll turn out to be. > I guess my fear is that if applications cannot do what they need to do with > the use of actuators then they will rely on posting manual steps in release > notes or something and giving the user more work and a lousy experience. > Worst case the user will complain that he didn't have to do these steps > when he added the patch on s10 but does in opensolaris! Seconded. Venky. _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
