> The Sun Developer Tools organization and the Sun OS/Net organization
> should collaborate to create an environment where customers can
> reliably create applications on S10 that run on S9. This could be
> done with very few caveats in the resulting system.
Really? It seems fundamentally unsupportable to me. As Jim mentioned,
none of our APIs are designed with this consideration in mind, nevermind
how the developer would know what S10-only[1] interfaces they need to
avoid (where interfaces include more than just function calls -- e.g.,
revised structure definitions that are forward but not backward-compatible
would need to be considered, among many other issues). Further, from what
I've heard, S9 is not a particularly popular release, so S9->S10 seems a
strange place to focus.
[1] That's making the massive oversimplification that S10 is a single
release.
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meem
