> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:50:42PM -0500, Eric Boutilier wrote: > >> It would be interesting to empirically determine which libraries are >> most core/key, and use that as a starting point. What I'm thinking is to >> come up with a list from each of the major players. The list being those >> FOSS libraries deemed lacking/absent in Nevada; and the players being >> the 5 popular, active FOSS distros/ports: BeleniX, Nexenta, SchilliX, >> CSW/Blastwave, and pkgbuild (JDS). > > While an attempt to construct and analyse the library dependency graph > makes a lot of sense, I don't quite understand how you selected these
I think that supporting the Solaris user base is important. This means the versions of Solaris that are still shipping and that includes Solaris 8. The EOL for Solaris 9 is still very far off. Solaris 10 and Solaris Next will be supported into the next decade. I am not willing to simply drop support for Solaris 8 and 9 users. This pretty much implies that any library base will duplicate those that reside in Solaris 8 and 9 OR we end up with multiple trees of library code for each shipping Solaris rev. My opinion of course. -- Dennis Clarke
