> If Sun don't release what makes up a standard Solaris > distribution, people are going to have to find > replacement components so that existing Solaris code > can run on pure OpenSolaris distros... i.e Solaris > provides a C++ runtime system that is not open so > makes it difficult for a pure OpenSolaris distro to > run C++ applications that require the Solaris runtime > bits.
And how is this a problem? I presume that libCstd and libCrun are available for OpenSolaris (at least, I assume so, since Sun has made their Studio compilers available). The big advantage of lbCstd is backwards compatibility. > Anyway I saw that RogueWave have released their > standard C++ library as open source. I believe the > Solaris libCstd is based off RougueWave source code. > > Could be very useful for anyone attempting a clean > Solaris compatible OpenSolaris distro providing that > Sun libCstd has not diverged hugely from the > RougeWave implementation... > > http://incubator.apache.org/projects/stdcxx.html There is already STLport which comes with Sun Studio. The advantage of STLport is that it allows a much better C++ standard conformance than the older libCstd. The disadvantage is that you have to compile and link all objects/libraries with the same standard library. This means that if you have any libraries without the source code, then you are stuck with libSctd. I imagine that this will also be an issue with an updated libCstd. If it were possible to remain backwardly compatible and 100% standard conformant, then I'm sure that Sun would already have done it. I'd be interested to hear, if anyone knows, how RW compares to STLport (reliability, speed, debug features...). A+ Paul This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
