flag day for Solaris portions of config.{guess,sub}
Zack Weinberg
zack@codesourcery.com
Mon Dec 8 23:51:00 GMT 2003
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
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