[illumos-Discuss] Questions

[Garrett D'Amore]

My thoughts are clear here.  Solaris is the market share (application
base) that we need first and foremost.  Therefore being compatible with
that is job #1.

Some purchasers want POSIX conformance (typically it shows up as a
checkbox on a gov't contract or somesuch), so we should strive for it as
long as it does not conflict with job #1.

Anyone that wants to reorder these priorities (or choose completely
different ones) is free to take our work as the foundation of a separate
project.  After all, as Bryan Cantrill said, one of the great things
that Illumos gives us is the "power to fork".  We don't all have to
agree.

	- Garrett

On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 10:10 -0700, Gary wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 9:00 AM, Stefan Parvu wrote:
> 
> > important is to be POSIX compliant from start or as much as
> > possible. This will ensure compatibility with other systems
> > and adoptation by various vendors. Thats very important to
> > grow the community.
> 
> I've heard this a lot over the years and it's never made sense and
> that's perhaps because I came to Unix as an end user and sysadmin
> instead of as a programmer. POSIX and the Single UNIX Standards,
> despite the good work they've done over the years, have never really
> been on my list of reasons to include or exclude the adoption of any
> particular operating system. For example, I've never thought, "I can
> protect an org's entire infrastructure with [insert flavor] systems on
> the perimeter but -- oh, damn, it's not fully POSIX compliant so I'd
> better not go there." That said, not even OpenSolaris is compliant
> along with every BSD and Linux distribution. So to worry about Illumos
> being POSIX compliant when OpenSolaris never was certified seems to me
> to be an unnecessary distraction.
> 
> -Gary
> 
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