Re: flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}

[Arnaud Charlet <charlet@ACT-Europe.FR>]

> OK, how about the following more-conservative change instead?  This

Please don't, that'd be worse.

SunOS no longer means anything, so this should really be solaris7,
solaris8, solaris9, etc... And solaris10 if this is how the next version
of Solaris will be called.

While I agree that this issue has already been discussed too much,
I also strongly disagree about the apparent conclusion: nobody has provided
any real figure about the impact of this change, only assumptions and
personal feelings.

Also, changing new config.guess won't break existing packages, so we're
talking about new packages using new version of config.guess, and a very
low amount of packages that will need to be changed.

The amount of changes will be lower than the amount of changes required
to switch from one version of autoconf to another, and lower or equal to
the amount of work required to support a new version of Solaris, so I
really don't see any convincing argument for using the wrong names.

The official names for Solaris are clear, and I don't see any reason
to use non existing versions, leading to clearly incorrect names.

Arno