[csw-maintainers] comment/warning about sun studio 12.1

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> FYI, I read the following on a sun mailing list,and thought I should
> share the horror:
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> What is "Sun Studio 12 update 1" and where did it come from?
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> Sun Studio 12 update 1 is the latest major release of Sun Studio.
> The previous major release was Sun Studio 12.  It is a completely
> different compiler from Sun Studio 12.  SS12u1 has it's own patch
> stream that is disjoint from the patch stream for SS12.
> It took two years of effort by a large team of people to produce it.
> By all logic it should have been called Sun Studio 13, but management
> and marketing made a different choice.  If SS12 was also available
> in the repo, users would need to be able to install both SS12 and SS12u1
> at the same time to migrate their code gracefully.
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Hey, that's just like Java! :D

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