On 11/14/07, Marty Duey <Marty.Duey at sun.com> wrote: > > I think the advantages of a improved means for installation and update > would compel application providers to support a new packaging system. > Both for their sake and their customers.
It can be bad enough to persuade some of these companies to support Solaris at all; adding additional barriers or making them do extra work is only going to discourage them further. > As for compatibility with older releases of Solaris, doesn't IPS support > SVR4 packages? If so, companies nor communities would have to change > unless they wanted to do so (and who wouldn't?). The full nature of that compatibility remains to be seen, although some of the design goals of IPS are - quite rightly - at odds with maintaining compatibility. Fortunately, quite a lot of stuff doesn't use native packaging at all. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/
