[csw-maintainers] Our infrastructure on Solaris 9

[Ben Walton]

On Aug 5, 2013 2:44 PM, "Peter FELECAN" <pfelecan at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> "Maciej (Matchek) Bliziński" <maciej at opencsw.org> writes:
>
> > Our current support level for Solaris 9 is best effort: if a package
> > maintainer wishes to build a Solaris 9 package, they can go and do it,
but
> > it's optional. For this to be possible, the package building
infrastructure
> > must be fully operative on Solaris 9. If we stop maintaining the
> > infrastructure on Solaris 9, it will eventually break and Solaris 9 will
> > effectively stop being best effort and will start being completely
> > unsupported.
> >
> > Here are the two general options:
> >
> > 1. Don't do anything. When it breaks, it remains broken. We'll make an
> > announcement when this happens.
> > 2. Support a subset of packages for Solaris 9, such as cswclassutils,
and
> > GAR with friends. If it turns out to be too much effort, we stop
supporting
> > Solaris 9.
> >
> > What do we do?
>
> 1 definitely

I agree with Peter.

Thanks
-Ben
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