On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:57:05 +0200
Holger Berger <holger.s.ber...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 3/30/09, James C. McPherson <james.mcpher...@sun.com> wrote:
...
> > It's a flag day because there are lots of people who work on
> >  Solaris 10 backports who prefer to use the onnv version of
> >  webrev(1) - and if they run the onnv version on an s10 system
> >  then they'll have problems.
> 
> Why doesn't Sun backport ksh93 to Solaris 10?

Backporting projects to a Solaris 10 Update release is not
merely a case of putting the code into the gate, building
it and shipping.

There are very rigorous processes to follow and requirements
which must be met.


James C. McPherson
--
Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp       http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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