It seems that removal from illumos-gate and into a special legacy gate would be appropriate for these packages. I suspect only SPARC users have binaries this old. Intel users are more likely to have newer code as Intel Solaris only became popular after 2.6 or so.
Sent from my iPad On May 6, 2012, at 2:57 AM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 5 May 2012, at 16:36, Peter Tribble wrote: >>> Binary compatibility goes back a long way - I use 20+ year old binaries on >>> a daily basis. >> >> Purely for voyeuristic curiosity, what binaries are they? I can't think of >> anything that old I own or use on a regular basis, except perhaps (by a year >> or two) my molars. > > My favourite is a copy of microemacs I use daily. It's tiny, > incredibly quick to start, and has worked for more years than > I care to remember. It was an antique with a long and illustrious > history when I first met it back in 1994. > > That's just me. The company I work for runs code that old that > is accessed by paying customers. Frightening, no? 15 years old > as mentioned at the start of this thread takes you back to Solaris > 2.6 (1997); I have that still running (not by choice, I hasten to add...) > > -- > -Peter Tribble > http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ > > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/22003744-45f01c1f > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
