[csw-maintainers] Completely drop Solaris8?

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Ben,

Am 21.03.2010 um 22:34 schrieb Ben Walton:
> Excerpts from Ihsan Dogan's message of Sun Mar 21 17:24:10 -0400 2010:
>> Ok, so what is our decision now? To drop Solaris 8 support?
>
> I haven't seen any -1's for that and again, I say YES!

Ok the,if there are no further posts I'll raise the default GAR build  
hosts
to build9s and build9x. The Solaris 8 hosts will of course stay in  
place,
just in case.

> I also think
> Roger's suggestion of announcing a cut-off date for 9 _now_ is great.
> (Personally, I'd be ok with dropping 9 now too, but that's based
> solely on not having it deployed here at all.)

IMHO we should support Solaris 9 as long as it is supported by Sun,
that means it has not entered Vintage Phase II. This is 30. October  
2011.
   <http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_solaris.html?cid=e9294>
OTOH there are virtually no downloads for Solaris 9 any more if you look
at the download stats.


Best regards

   -- Dago