[csw-maintainers] dropping support for solaris 9?

[Jesse Reynolds]

Are there any stats on how widely OpenCSW is used? And what proportion on
Solaris 9?

Personally, I think it makes sense to drop support for Solaris 9 when Oracle
do. But the Solaris 9 frozen package archive should remain online, and easy
instructions given on the website of how to point your solaris 9 boxes at it
(though with warnings that there's going to be no maintenance for them,
other than DIY).

On 5 September 2011 00:53, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> The premier support of Solaris 9 ends in October[1] of this year.  How
> do people feel about dropping build support for it and moving to
> Solaris 10 and 11 only?
>
> My thinking is that we should drop it on the same date as Oracle to
> avoid the situation we had with Solaris 8 where we were building
> packages for it _way_ after the 'best before' date.
>
> What do others think?
>
> (I added this as a dicussion item for the Kiel Summercamp too.)
>
> Thanks
> -Ben
>
> [1] Page 30 of:
> http://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/lifetime-support-hardware-os-337182.pdf
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> Ben Walton
> Systems Programmer - CHASS
> University of Toronto
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