Sun's expectations are that large Linux customers will move first to
the Project Indiana binary distribution built on OpenSolaris, not to
Solaris 10. So I very much endorse the notion that we make Project
Indiana as seamless as possible for people moving from Linux. At some
point in the future, when we rev our commercial Solaris distro to
make it based on Indiana, Sun can decide exactly how to handle the
compatibility with our Solaris 10 install base. But for now, I'm
hoping the community focuses on making it as seamless as possible for
non Solaris users to use OpenSolaris/Indiana.
On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
Seconded. This goes to Keith Bierman's discussion about large Linux
customers moving to Solaris. Everything has to compile/build/work
seamlessly for those kind of environments to contemplate the move.
Inevitably things go wrong during migrations of that sort...it seems
to me you don't do yourself a favor by choosing a migration that's you
know is going to hit significant roadblocks ahead of time.
-J
On 8/7/07, Chris Pickett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/6/07, Josh Hurst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/6/07, I. Szczesniak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/6/07, Richard Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Roland's current work is to integrate ksh93 as ksh93. He also
has a
build flag to build it as 'ksh'.
I hope Indiana is going to set this build flag to 'ksh' by default.
+1
+1
I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or
Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses
the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either
bash or ksh as /bin/sh, creating porting problems for Opensolaris
developers because basics like functions with separate scope, arrays
or $() aren't working in scripts and makefiles. This really needs to
be a top priority.
Chris
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