Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: >> I wonder, would deprecated mean CDE won't run on future solaris >> releases, or would one have to install it seperately (like other >> managers now). > > I take it to mean that CDE (everything under /usr/dt) would not be > available at all. For example, maybe it will be gone in Solaris 11. > It would make sense to only do this after the new desktop (JDS / > Gnome) satisifes the key features of CDE and there is a defined > migration path, but it seems that this is not the case yet.
That's not quite true - some things under /usr/dt will remain, such as the core binaries (like libraries) that 3rd parties are likely to have used (e.g. Motif, DtSvc, etc). Saying that, it will not be possible to start a CDE desktop unless you copy the packages from S10 (which could work due to the Solaris ABI guarantees) - but that's not "supported" in that Sun will not provide patches should it fail. Darren.
