I guess that I would make the case that "convention over configuration" really saves a lot of time. Providing both versions is fine. However, pick a default.
When I use my Fedora 11 machine, I can take a lot of things for granted, like software just compiles or I can get a package. If something is missing, I normally have to do a 'yum -y install pkg*' Now OpenSolaris falls somewhere in no man's land. I can't get commercial support from Fast (http://fastsearch.com), for example. They will only support Solaris 10. As a developer workstation, OpenSolaris not polished enough to displace Linux(yes I know about dtrace), where I really see it fitting in. At any rate, this just the opinion of someone who uses Solaris on his servers, Fedora for years, and who now is trying to now trying to use OpenSolaris on the desktop. Btw, automake --version yield this on Fedora 11: automake (GNU automake) 1.11) and all of these versions are provided: /usr/bin/automake /usr/bin/automake-1.11 /usr/bin/automake-1.4 /usr/bin/automake-1.5 /usr/bin/automake-1.6 /usr/bin/automake-1.7 -Mike On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Dermot McCluskey <[email protected] > wrote: > Michael, > > http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=3506 >>> >>> How does this get fixed in the OpenSolaris pkg? >>> >>> pfexec ln -s /usr/bin/aclocal-1.10 /usr/bin/aclocal >>> pfexec ln -s /usr/bin/automake-1.10 /usr/bin/automake >>> >> > When automake was originally being reviewed, there was a > lot of discussion about which installed version, if any, > should be the default, and what would happen to this > default link if the installed versions were removed/ > replaced by an update. > > The upshot was I removed the /usr/bin/automake -> automake-1.10 > etc links and just provided the two versions of automake > with no default. > > In any event, as Shawn mentioned, it's a good idea to > explicitly call a specific version of the tools, due to > incompatibilities. > > - Dermot > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
