[Followups to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Compatiblitiy is less trivial than you might belive but without conformance
> tests, we cannot claim anything about compatibility
> ...
>
> A distro alone cannot be a refernce. It must not even be changed for
> the compatibility tests.
One of my comments on the wiki definition was along the lines of:
We could, as a starting place for defining compatibility,
simply assert that there is a baseline (installer and
a set of versioned packages; a "recipe", if you will)
that must exist in any distro if it wants to claim
compatibility.
Of course, this type of definition is poor, from many perspectives.
It is, however, easy to implement :-)
It presumes significant sameness between distros - not a bad thing
from a compatibility perspective. Same installer, same kernel, same
packaging system, same repositories...
But, it is a starting point that we can use today, rather than
waiting for someone to develop a full blown, ratified test suite...
-John
_______________________________________________
opensolaris-discuss mailing list
opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
