On 15/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > Marty Duey <Marty.Duey at Sun.COM> wrote: > > > 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?). > > This does not yet make SVr4 packages invalid. > > Companies will nut update to the new packaging mechanism before Solaris 11 > has become the oldest supported SunOS. This may be 10 years from now.
"will not" and are "unlikely to" are two entirely different things. Saying "will not" is premature at this point. Customers tend to have interesting ways of driving demand, and if and when they adopt an "ips-based distriubtion", such as one from Sun (whenever Solaris Next becomes reality), they will likely be inclined to demand a native package. Personally, when IPS passes ARC (since I have no doubt it will), I think that its functionality will be compelling enough to drive adoption in these areas. Claims that it "will not" are premature at this point. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
