[csw-maintainers] Our infrastructure on Solaris 9

[Peter Bonivart]

On Tue, Aug 6, 2013 at 12:23 AM, Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Me too. I suspect that subset will be quite large, I had to stop
building pkgutil for Solaris 8 because basically nothing worked in GAR
for Solaris 8 and the same will happen to Solaris 9. It's a wasteful
effort, Solaris 10 was released in 2005...