Chris Quenelle writes: > > 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. In addition > to leaving old interfaces in the kernel, you would also have to > leave backwards compatible interfaces in the headers and libraries. > This would be more work for Sun, but it would be very valuable > for software developers.
We could call it "Etude." :-> Otherwise, no, I don't agree. The cost of designing, maintaining, and testing such a thing and risk of not actually getting it right or breaking it over time, compared with the _very_ low cost of simply installing S9 in a spare partition (using LU) and/or a spare system bought off of eBay make this a "no brainer." We should not create such a new feature. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
