From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] Oracle euthanizes Solaris 12, expunging it from roadmap
Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 00:25:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E2018BCE-29B6-4EFE-B6A1-9A6A3C4EF9B0@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJfiPzwEZRsQxzQNjTQHgyxMKBKkPjT6vQ=CmqtsvyUwaWz4Fw@mail.gmail.com>
On 20 Jan 2017, at 19:38, Nemo <cym224 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> As they say, 'ave a laugh, guv:
> http://www.iso.org/iso/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=43781
>
You have not understood the problem I was describing I think: things like POSIX or LSB do not solve it: if they did it would be trivial to port <awful mass of scripts> between platforms, and it is not, because <awful mass of scripts> will always rely on behaviour which is outwith the standard, whatever the standard may be. These standards solve the problem of making well-written code portable, but your bank is not held together by well-written code, unfortunately.
An interesting approach would be platforms which only supported the standard they purport to conform to (ie there would be no additional functionality at all): such platforms would make porting things more easy, but they would also be mostly indistinguishable from each other and thus eliminate most of the competition between vendors. They would also be impossibly austere of course.
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Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-19 7:53 Kay Parker
2017-01-19 8:49 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-19 14:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-19 16:39 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 17:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20 2:00 ` Nick Downing
2017-01-20 11:24 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 13:26 ` Random832
2017-01-20 14:23 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:29 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-20 15:20 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-20 15:45 ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-20 16:30 ` tfb
2017-01-20 19:38 ` Nemo
2017-01-21 0:25 ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2017-01-21 1:58 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 17:32 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-01-24 3:51 ` Rico Pajarola
2017-01-21 15:43 ` Nemo
2017-01-20 20:30 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-20 22:30 ` Kay Parker
2017-01-20 23:50 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-01-21 0:09 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-21 1:03 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-01-20 11:54 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-19 18:17 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-20 14:58 Rudi Blom
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