[webkit-dev] [Proposal] Removing OS(SOLARIS) support

Yusuke SUZUKI utatane.tea at gmail.com
Mon Sep 4 19:18:39 PDT 2017


Removed in r221600.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 10:03 Yusuke SUZUKI <utatane.tea at gmail.com> wrote:

> In addition, I would like to note that our JSVALUE64 is broken in Solaris
> + SPARC 64bit environment
> because its address space includes non-48bit address[1].
> I filed the issue to remove Solaris support from WebKit[2].
>
> [1]: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577056
> [2]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176341
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanzaro at igalia.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty sure that no regular contributors to WebKit care about
>>> Solaris support, so I would remove it.
>>>
>>> Michael
>>>
>>
>> Coincidence: apparently Oracle has just fired most of their remaining
>> developers:
>>
>> https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/
>>
>>
> --
Regards,
Yusuke Suzuki
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