[csw-users] Why support Solaris 8 onwards?

[Torrey McMahon]

Some comments

1 - Instead of providing the /opt/csw tree blastwave turns its resources 
to keeping the latest and greatest freeware in opensolaris. The fact 
that opensolaris is pretty up-to-date with lots of packages, though not 
always the very latest and greatest, says we might want to rethink 
things. Indiana also plays into account here.
2 - Come up with the charter statement that details if/when blastwave 
stops providing support for older OS. I've never seen this in writing 
and it would come in quite handy. People would know when support starts 
and ends giving them enough time to migrate. The fact that we're 
discussing this is the major headache not when we cut S8 or S9 support.
3 - Given blastwave is a volunteer effort its up to the maintainers - 
Thats the other email list - to decide what gets supported or not. It 
doesn't matter what everyone else thinks. It matters what the 
maintainers think....with Dennis and Phil owning majority shares. :-)
4 - We still need to provide some solutions to the fact that the 
/opt/csw tree can conflict with other packages. I got an interesting 
email from someone at Sun that said it wasn't the bloat that ticked him 
off but that we weren't linking things in a correct fashion to avoid 
conflicts.