Re: Updating Primary and Secondary platform list for gcc-4.5 ???

[Dennis Clarke <dclarke@blastwave.org>]

>> you can buy a support contract for it then you have a valid platform in
>> commercial use.
>
> You can get support for the OpenSolaris distribution if you like

I just went and looked ... you are correct, they have three levels in
fact. It looks like $1080 for premium, $720 is standard business hours
$324 is patches and updates with email tech support I think.

So that makes it a real commercial platform in my mind.

> is still very much work in progress, not a stable platform we can rely on.

However, Solaris 10 was also a moving platoform in its first few releases
but no one would debate it as a commercial grade release or not. I think
Opensolaris must be looked at as viable and commercial grade. I am not at
all biased in this regardless of the fact that I have been involved one
way or another in the OpenSolaris project since day one. I'm very much an
outside guy that just loves to experiment and perhaps even attempt to help
where I can.

>> Having said that .. I see roughly 30% of all my traffic from SunOS5.11
>> users on either Solaris Nevada or OpenSolaris beta releases.
>>
>> The question should be ... do we in the community end user world see
>> SunOS5.11 as being a de facto release? I would say yes.
>
> Certainly not, even if it is widely used (primarily on laptops, I
> suppose).

Well, would Fedora Core on PowerPC or Ubuntu or Debian ( any release ) be
considered a platform or does that just fall under a wide umbrella of
"Linux" ? Some of those are barely used at all anymore. Consider running
Linux on a DEC Alpha. Who does that anymore? Is this a popularity
measurement or is this based on something more tangible and quantitative
like "commercially supported"?

>> Solaris 10 is the enterprise class commercial grade Solaris release and
>> it is staying put for a long long long time yet.
>
> Indeed, and even if we chose sparc-sun-solaris2.10 as the primary platform
> doesn't mean that *-*-solaris2.11 doesn't work, quite the contrary: I
> regularly test both and try to keep them working.

I test everything on *-*-solaris2.8 which by way of the ABI golden rule
instantly qualifies as tested on anything up to SunOS2.10. It does not
imply SunOS2.11 however.

-- 
Dennis