[indiana-discuss] scope

[Marc Hamilton]

Sun's expectations are that large Linux customers will move first to  
the Project Indiana binary distribution built on OpenSolaris, not to  
Solaris 10. So I very much endorse the notion that we make Project  
Indiana as seamless as possible for people moving from Linux. At some  
point in the future, when we rev our commercial Solaris distro to  
make it based on Indiana, Sun can decide exactly how to handle the  
compatibility with our Solaris 10 install base. But for now, I'm  
hoping the community focuses on making it as seamless as possible for  
non Solaris users to use OpenSolaris/Indiana.


On Aug 7, 2007, at 9:50 AM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote:

> Seconded. This goes to Keith Bierman's discussion about large Linux
> customers moving to Solaris. Everything has to compile/build/work
> seamlessly for those kind of environments to contemplate the move.
> Inevitably things go wrong during migrations of that sort...it seems
> to me you don't do yourself a favor by choosing a migration that's you
> know is going to hit significant roadblocks ahead of time.
>
> -J
>
> On 8/7/07, Chris Pickett <pkchris at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> On 8/6/07, Josh Hurst <joshhurst at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/6/07, I. Szczesniak <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/6/07, Richard Lowe <richlowe at richlowe.net> wrote:
>>>>> Roland's current work is to integrate ksh93 as ksh93.  He also  
>>>>> has a
>>>>> build flag to build it as 'ksh'.
>>>>
>>>> I hope Indiana is going to set this build flag to 'ksh' by default.
>>>
>>> +1
>>
>> +1
>>
>> I think we have a bigger problem than /bin/ksh: Does Indiana or
>> Opensolaris want to address the problem that Opensolaris still uses
>> the original bourne shell as /bin/sh? Most modern Unices use either
>> bash or ksh as /bin/sh, creating porting problems for Opensolaris
>> developers because basics like functions with separate scope, arrays
>> or $() aren't working in scripts and makefiles. This really needs to
>> be a top priority.
>>
>> Chris
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Marc Hamilton
Vice President, Solaris Marketing
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
http://blogs.sun.com/marchamilton
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