Shawn Walker wrote, On 22/06/07 18:41: > On 22/06/07, BVK Chaitanya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Are Solaris Express and Nexenta compatible today? I.e., can you build >> > a package on Solaris Express and install it on Nexenta and vice versa >> > without any concern about whether something might break? -ian >> >> Can you tell us how Indiana will solve it anyway? > > In theory, by having a reference platform. But that doesn't actually > solve the problem. People can always create incompatible > distributions.
The only way to ensure that nobody could never build an incompatible distribution would be to stop distributing the source code (and of course nobody wants that!) As long as the source it free, people are also free to make as many mistakes as them want. However, the point here is that, as long as we have a community reference distribution and we all agree on that pro-common, there should not be any compatibility problem. Even if it isn't a perfect solution, it is the most pragmatic way to keep OpenSolaris compatible with itself. > It won't solve the issue of a packaging system, etc. Indeed. That's another problem that ought to be addressed as well. -- Greetings, alo. _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
