[csw-maintainers] V8+ binaries from now on

[Peter FELECAN]

Dagobert Michelsen <dam at opencsw.org> writes:

> 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.

The Old Clunker Syndrome all over!

Another constraint that we like to keep. Or maybe not?
-- 
Peter