Brian Smith wrote: > Dave Miner wrote: >> We're not going to do that in the installer, as it's a question too >> subtle for explanation there, and it isn't something that is absolutely >> necessary to get the system up and running. For OpenSolaris, we've >> chosen the default which makes the most sense for the most users, just >> as with every other default. The solution here is to fix the utilities. > > What is the strategy to "fix the utilities"? Will the GNU utilities be > modified to be supersets of their Solaris counterparts? What is the strategy > for the cases where the default behavior is different between the Solaris > version and the GNU version (and/or when the GNU version is non-POSIX by > default, by design) like "tar" and "make"? >
My opinion is that the GNU utilities should be modified, with modifications fed back upstream, so that we get maximum leverage going forward. Maintaining separate versions is a cost that Sun is unlikely to be able to continue to justify long-term. But it's only my opinion, not a decision. > What is the plan for the default path in Solaris 11? Will it be like Solaris > 10 or OpenSolaris? Because, I think there are a lot of OpenSolaris users > like me who would like to see as much compatibility between OpenSolaris and > whatever ends up in Solaris 11, as much as possible. In particular, the > defaults for OpenSolaris and Solaris 11 should be the same, at the very > least (and, AFAICT, that means they have to be the same as in Solaris 10, if > I understand the compatibility guarantee). > Past compatibility guarantees certainly do not require that things such as a default user PATH value must be carried forward to subsequent releases; the binary compatibility offered with Solaris has always been much narrower than that. We've not yet made (and I won't make here, because it's not my place to do so) any statements about what compatibility there will be between OpenSolaris and any other product, including a hypothetical Solaris 11. Dave _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
