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Re: Updating Primary and Secondary platform list for gcc-4.5 ???
- From: Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave dot org>
- To: Rainer Orth <ro at TechFak dot Uni-Bielefeld dot DE>
- Cc: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>, "Kaveh R. GHAZI" <ghazi at caip dot rutgers dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:46:18 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Updating Primary and Secondary platform list for gcc-4.5 ???
- Reply-to: dclarke at blastwave dot org
> Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou@adacore.com> writes:
>
>> > I was looking through the gcc-4.5 primary and secondary platform list
>> > to ensure we have coverage for MPC testing. It occurs to me that some
>> > of the OS versions are outdated.
>> >
>> > I've included the list from the page
>> > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/criteria.html
>> >
>> > Should we update:
>> >
>> > 1. solaris2.10 -> 2.11
>>
>> Why move to a not-yet-released version?
>
> Indeed: while I regularly test on Solaris 11/SPARC at the moment, it's
> still so much of a moving target that this doesn't make any sense.
The issue may be one of "de facto" vs "defined as being" released.
There is no such thing as a released Solaris revision that responds to
uname with SunOS5.11 yet. When Sun/Oracle actually releases something AND
you can buy a support contract for it then you have a valid platform in
commercial use.
Having said that .. I see roughly 30% of all my traffic from SunOS5.11
users on either Solaris Nevada or OpenSolaris beta releases.
The question should be ... do we in the community end user world see
SunOS5.11 as being a de facto release? I would say yes.
Solaris 10 is the enterprise class commercial grade Solaris release and it
is staying put for a long long long time yet.
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Dennis Clarke
dclarke@opensolaris.ca <- Email related to the open source Solaris
dclarke@blastwave.org <- Email related to open source for Solaris