On 14/10/2013 14:49, Nikola M. wrote:
On 10/14/13 02:35 PM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:On 14/10/2013 14:23, Nikola M. wrote:... Just we need to understand, that it is actuall kiss-goodbye to any binary compatibility of applications for Solaris and OI in the future.Again, killing binary copmpatibility with commmerial software IS the fastest way to kill OI and Illumos ...I understand and support your case. What do you think about that idea/project of providing zone brand that could freeze state of libraries of OI, up to /dev version a7 or so, ....
No, I don't see how a zone should help here, for enterprise locations like ours where commercial software is an integral part of the production chain this makes no sense, this is a view of a few home nas server people who have not used Solaris as their main OS before in their business. Before doing ANYTHING in preparation to break compatibilty, there should be a proof that this actually has to happen, and I don't see this now (the Flash case is some other bug, as far as I understand it). First, all efforts should be made to keep compatibilty in the main line while switching, and setting a LD_LIBRARY_PATH is OK if necessary. I checked our main commercial application (Exelis IDL), and it depends C libraries only, so presumably switching to gcc should not break it, and if so, it's a bug. MongoDB also has a problem on a7 with delivered libstdc++ and libgcc_s (but runs with another build of these libs from OpenCSW), but that problem vanished on a8. Of course, there's a lot other software out there (esp. backup software, RAID managers etc.), as most of the OI/Illumos base are enterprise users who left Oracle alone, so there should be a check for this on the openindiana-discuss list and a thorough testing with a a9 or a10 before doing a release (and I mean /release) which could break things. -- Dr.Udo Grabowski Inst.f.Meteorology a.Climate Research IMK-ASF-SAT www.imk-asf.kit.edu/english/sat.php KIT - Karlsruhe Institute of Technology http://www.kit.edu Postfach 3640,76021 Karlsruhe,Germany T:(+49)721 608-26026 F:-926026
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