[oi-dev] [OpenIndiana-discuss] Studio future in OI (Re: )

[Laurent Blume]

On 11/10/13 11:47, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> The problem is that this doea not help you with existing binaries and it would
> be better if gcc would implement the stable studio interfaces instead it's own
> variable interfaces.

Well, a switch is a switch. I've had to think about the issue in 
OpenCSW, so I think I'm reasonably aware of the issues involved. For 
something like OI which is still evolving and can provide a full switch 
in one «pkg update», it's a reasonable switch.

Also, it's not like Studio is perfect in that aspect,
Eg, you can use the defaut Cstd, which is old and crusty, or stlport4, 
or Apache stdcxx4, which are more standard-compliant - but binary 
incompatible (MySQL 5.6 defaults to stlport4 for the daemon).

Finally, since Oracle seems to be planning to add the G++ ABI into 
Studio 12.4 sparc, it appears to be on the verge of becoming the 
de-facto standard.
Reality check: having a vastly multiplatform standard is *good*, even if 
it was Not Invented Here. And the more people will invest in it, the 
less the GCC team will be inclined to change it (remember, it also 
annoys Red Hat, and everybody else who has to support a distro for more 
than a decade).

Laurent