New candidate JEP: 362: Deprecate the Solaris and SPARC Ports (original) (raw)

Dalibor Topic dalibor.topic at oracle.com
Thu Nov 14 16:38:03 UTC 2019

On 13.11.2019 23:20, Peter Tribble wrote:

As I've said before, the illumos community wish to support an illumos port; Solaris-like, with the gcc toolchain, but x86 only. That is not the current Solaris port, but clearly overlaps with it to an extent.

The question is how to do that - should we target this as a new port, or somehow inherit parts of the existing port? And is a project proposal to the porters group the appropriate mechanism to get this off the ground?

I'd suggest starting with a new port and a project proposal on the porters-dev mailing list. That's the simplest way to get started.

Are there illumos variants with alternative libc-s? I seem to recall that Nexenta used a GNU userland, for example, but I assume it's gone by now.

cheers, dalibor topic

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