[csw-maintainers] Completely drop Solaris8?

[Roger Håkansson]

On 2010-03-16 16:50, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am currently working on an updated glib and have the
> behavious that on Solaris 8 i386 a couple of tests fail,
> most certainly due to threading issues. As glib is quite
> fundamental and the issues are related to the operating
> system and we have already voted to support Solaris 8
> on a best effort basis it may really be time now to
> completely drop it. Thoughts?
>

The number of people running Solaris 8 should be few today.
The only reason for running Solaris 8 is if you have a sun4d machine or 
have some driver or application that doesn't work on Solaris 9.
If you are running x86, I haven't yet found any machine that can run 
Solaris 8 but not Solaris 10.
Also, working as a consultant, the only ones running something older 
than Solaris 9 I've come across the past two years, have either been 
sent to the grave or are actually running something older than Solaris 8 
(one is running 2.6 due to a driver issue).

Jumping to Solaris 9 will let us use SOS12 in a supported way (even 
though Sun might consider SOS12 unsupported, haven't taken a look at 
that), which will make life a lot easier for us since SOS12 have a lot 
of new functionality which makes porting code from GCC/Linux easier (a 
lot less ifdefs needed).


My take on it is: lets freeze the Solaris 8 trail, but keep it as a 
legacy trail for those still running Solaris 8. Bug fixes to that trail 
is only done if the maintainer chooses so.