Chung Hang Christopher Chan writes:
> > Solaris offers stable interfaces back to a time when
> > Mac OS X did not exist.
> 
> Great. That was then. This is now. Now you have a
No, that is now.
_Today_ you can use those stable interfaces.
_Today_ your ancient Solaris binaries will keep on running.
It's a major plus for OpenSolaris as compared to most other OSes.

> whole bunch of moving targets like qt-*, gtk-*, xorg-*
> (hmm are they all desktop related?) and other cruft.
Right, and after recompiling 30+ libraries in an attempt
to build inkscape (which will fail anyway...), it becomes
obvious what stable interfaces are worth.

Rainer
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