[OmniOS-discuss] Python difference

[Tim Rice]

On Sat, 13 Dec 2014, Theo Schlossnagle wrote:

| A package (like ha) should either rely on the system python packages /
| versions it needs to work (thus preventing your upgrade to 012) or more
| reasonably rely on its own known-good python.  I don't believe OmniOS makes
| any release-to-release compatibility guarantees for python (or perl or java
| for that matter). The only reason they even exist in the core is because we
| have other core requirements that depend upon them.

Anyone coming from a UNIX background knowing that OmniOS has
it's roots in OpenSolaris would reasonably expect that something
depending on programs/libs found in /usr/bin,/lib,/usr/lib would
continue to work on the next release. If omniti chooses not to
have any compatibility guarantees for python (or perl or java),
they should be moved to a separate tree (perhaps /usr/omnios or
even /usr/omnios-private). Kind of like how Solaris put the unstable
bits in /usr/sfw.


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