[csw-dev] getopt.h missing on solaris8

[Aubrey Li]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:16:32PM +0800, Aubrey Li wrote:
>  > Thanks Murray, I'll have a try.
>  > Just be curious, why don't we upgrade our system to solaris 10?
>
>
>  The mission of the CSW packaging effort can be started as providing
>  "supported packages of freeware", for "supported versions of solaris".
>
>  Solaris 8 is the oldest version of solaris fully supported by sun.
>  Therefore, all our packages have to support solaris 8 at this time.
>
>  This is mentioned with somewhat different wording, at
>  http://www.blastwave.org/standards/core_principles.html

That makes sense, I'll follow the principles.

Thanks for the info.
-Aubrey