[csw-maintainers] V8+ binaries from now on

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Roger,

Am 26.03.2010 um 11:29 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
> On 2010-03-26 11:22, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski wrote:
>> In the past, packages were getting rejected if they had V8+ binaries
>> for SPARC.  I vaguely recall this being related to Solaris 8.  Now
>> that we dropped it, is it okay to ship V8+ binaries?
>
> V8+ was introduced with sun4u and unfortunately, Sun did only drop  
> the support for sun4d (SS10) in Solaris 9, sun4m (SS5/5/20) was  
> still supported.
> However, I would say that of the small percentage still running  
> Solaris 9, I can't think that there are that many being sun4m.

But we should stick to sparcv8 then as before.


Best regards

   -- Dago