On 7/27/06, Rich Teer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 27 Jul 2006, Martin Schaffstall wrote:
> I suggest to make /bin/ksh ksh93 from the beginning that you don't
> have to deal with any backwards compatibility fuzz later
I advocate against that; individual distros are free to do what want,
of course, but making gratuitous incompatible changes "just because"
sounds like the sort of thing our penguin loving friends over at
kernel.org would go for. Having the PPC port being unnecessarily
different to SPARC and x86 will lead to more fragmentation than we
want, I would think.
How is "gratuitous incompatibility" defined in this particular case ?
The possibility that someone who will try the PowerPC Solaris port in
the future might be unhappy because this future port will default to
ksh93 instead of /bin/ksh, creating the possibility that Korn Shell
scripts written in 1990 might break in 2008 ?
Solaris 10 SPARC is currently incompatible with Solaris x86/x64: Xsun
on SPARC vs. Xorg on x86/x64. I haven't heard of too many complaints
because of this compatibility breakage (source code written, compiled
and linked on Solaris 10 Xorg x86/x64 will not compile and link on
Solaris 10 Xsun SPARC because Solaris 10 Xsun SPARC is a very
different beast than Solaris 10 Xorg x86/x64). I haven't heard of too
many people willingly running Xsun on x86/x64 for compatibility's sake
either -- compatibility in this particular case means running glxgears
at 42 FPS.
--Stefan
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