On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
Orvar Korvar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In my opionion, Blastwave and the likes, should be high on Sun's priority list. It seems
that to compile a program under Solaris takes years of experience. Sun and you all guys
are doing a terrific job with Solaris, and I and many more really appreciate what you do.
Btw, Linux sucks! :o) I dont like Linus and as Stallman said: "well, Im not the one
who wants to call GNU for Stallmanix". It seems hodge-podge helter skelter. Not
stable APIs and stuff. Thanx for your time reading my first steps into the Solaris world,
on my way on becoming an expert!! ;o)
Software that has been well written for portability does not givee problems
whencompiling on Solaris.
In former times, all software did follow Open Source ethics and was made
cleanly portable to all important platforms.
Read on ...
I really hope that the free availability of Solaris and Sun Studio will
change things back to a state we did have in the early 1990s where software
usually did work out of the box on SunOS.
That's the difference - not so much that people in the late 80s and early
90s were writing more portable software.
The main freeware/opensource target platform at that time was SunOS4 and
software naturally worked there. Trying to compile the same on HP/UX 8.x
didn't usually succeed out of the box, nor (often enough) trying to
compile the same thing on a Solaris 2 / SunOS 5 machine. Or, gasp, the
then-still-infant early Linux versions.
Some people managed to write properly portable software, but in many cases
there's that platform-specific interface here and that proprietary thing
here, and ah, yea, all those funky differences in what libraries to link
with on what platforms (-lnsl -lresolv -lsocket, anyone ?).
The main opensource target platform these days is Linux. And even there,
compiling a package on Fedora 7 that works nicely on Debian Etch may well
fail. This is just better hidden from you as the distributors do that work
for you, mostly ...
I don't think from "but it then ran fine on SunOS" one can conclude that
the quality of code in the early 90s was that much better.
There were less half-completed/abandoned/unmaintained opensource projects
out there back then...
FrankH.
Jörg
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