Dennis Clarke writes: > > It does run with compatibility. > > Is that a flaw or some sort of a weakness in the software?
It might be, depending on your perspective. > Is a binary that is compiled on Solaris 8 with Sun ONE Studio 8 any more or > less able to run on a Solaris 10 server? Nope. It'll run the same. > Let's dispense with the 64-bit > issue and the fact that most ( almost all ) of the software at Blastwave > will run on a Sparc 20 ( sun4m ) with the exception of a few rare cases. > Simply looking at some binary foo that was compiled from foo.c will we see > any lack of functionality when it runs on Solaris 10 because it was built on > a Solaris 8 server? Yes. It won't necessarily be able to take advantage of new features available on Solaris 10. It'll still work the same as it did on Solaris 8 ... but no _better_. If you expect better, then you might be disappointed. If you don't care about "better," then no problem. > > The only issue is that Solaris 10 has more features than does Solaris > > 9 or 8, and software written and compiled for Solaris 8 can't > > necessarily take advantage of those new features. In this case, S10 > > (and up) has fine-grained privileges, while those older releases do > > not. > > That sounds like a packaging issue and has nothing to do with the actual > software binary. Not necessarily so. If it was written and compiled on Solaris 8, how can the program link to libraries that S8 didn't have, or call functions that S8 didn't support? There may be packaging issues as well, but those aren't necessarily the only issues. > > That's not a failure of Solaris. If it were, we'd never be able to > > add a new feature ever again. :-/ > > that would be a bad thing. Let's all go back to Solaris 2.5.1 on x86. Right; it wouldn't be good at all. -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
