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

["Zack Weinberg" <zack at codesourcery dot com>]

Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> writes:
> Paul Eggert writes:
>> (c) Don't make the change at all; just keep the incorrect numbering
>>     indefinitely.
>> 
>> Obviously (c) is something I'm against fairly strongly, or I wouldn't
>> have brought up this issue in the first place.  I'm quite aware of the
>> entrenched software that depends on the wrong version numbers, but I
>> also feel strongly that we should give operating systems proper names
>> and numbers.  This should have been fixed years ago, but better late
>> than never.
>
> (c) is clearly the only option, especially since the only gain of change is
> consistence with (inherently inconsistent and changing) vendor marketing
> whims.  You could have made this change in the Solaris 2.0 days, but not
> after the current scheme has been in use for 10 years.

I agree.

zw