Review request for 5049299

Alan Bateman Alan.Bateman at Sun.COM
Sat May 23 13:48:04 UTC 2009


Michael McMahon wrote:
> :
>
> 2. Support for older Solaris releases. My understanding was that jdk7 
> doesn't need to support
>    older releases of Solaris (than S10). Can someone clarify that 
> situation?
Yes, that's right. Solaris 10 was released >4 years ago and the last 
ship date for Solaris 9 is approaching [1]. The jdk build moved to 
Solaris 10 last year. I don't think it has been buildable on older 
Solaris releases for some time.

-Alan.

[1] http://www.sun.com/service/eosl/eosl_solaris.html



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