Re: [Bug-wget] Wget 1.20.3 on Solaris

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:13 AM Tim Rühsen <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On 5/2/19 2:15 PM, Darshit Shah wrote:
> > That is a terrible suggestion. Please don't do that or suggest it.
> > I'm sure Jeffrey here is capable of knowing what this is and what the
> > implications of such a binary are.
>
> I wouldn't call it 'terrible', but it's definitely not a good idea for
> multi-user production environments :-)
>
> It demonstrates the principle for a system where absolutely nothing else
> uses python3 - that's what Jeff was claiming. And so nothing breaks.
> It is even not easily possible (or just unwanted !?) to install python3;
> if it was easy, Jeff wouldn't have posted the question, I guess.

Yeah, so this is Solaris. Oracle dismantled the packages system to get
folks to upgrade or buy a support contract. I can't even run 'pkg
update' without errors because Oracle deleted their signing keys.

I did try to build Python from sources about a year ago. I had some
had trouble (but don't recall what it was). Then I learned Solaris
wasn't really a supported platform for Python. They were not really
interested in testing the platform and fixing the problems.

Jeff