[csw-maintainers] Minor web site change?

[Mike Watters]

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Ihsan Dogan wrote:
> Ben Walton wrote:
> 
>>>> "CSW (Community SoftWare) is a free, volunteer effort, to provide
>>>> quality downloadable binary packages for the currently fully supported
>>>> versions of Sun Solaris (Currently, 8, 9, and 10)."
>>> ..."versions of Sun Solaris (when possible 8, but always 9, and 10)."
>> Or: "versions 9 and 10 of Sun Solaris (and 8, when possible)."
> 
> That might be confusing. I would not mention Solaris 8 together with 9
> and 10. It should be clearly mentioned, that the Software might run on
> Solaris 8, but Solaris 9 is the lowest supported version.
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> Ihsan
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I know baseline is solaris 9 but solaris 8 is "best effort", but when will we
drop the "best attempt"?  I think we should leave everything as-is unless we
are no longer going to create packages specifically for solaris 8.

I suggest the following.
as we roll out new versions of the packages, no longer attempt solaris 8
compile. compile for solaris 9+ only.

Freeze the existing solaris 8 software catalog and keep for those users that
want to run solaris 8 unsupported by sun.  if the users want an upgrade to the
software in the solaris 8 catalog, they can fill a bug report or request on the
mailing list and we will apply the "best effort" to create that package and
update the catalog.



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Thanks,
Mike

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage --
to move in the opposite direction."

* Albert Einstein 1879 - 1955
    US German-born Theoretical Physicist
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