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I would like to suggest that we from 7.0 and onwards rename our sunos builds to smartos. This means that the tarballs will change from node-v7.0.0-sunos-x64.tar.xz to node-v7.0.0-smartos-x64.tar.xz.
Rationale
Naming our smartos builds for sunos is false advertising seeing how they are built on smartos and as a result doesn't work on many configurations of Solaris (toolchain, baselayout, ..).
Suggested plan of execution
- From Node.js
v7.0.0and forward we will create tarballs usingsmartosinstead ofsunos.
This only affects v7 and forward (meaning 0.10, 0.12, 4.x and 6.x branches remain the same); nightlies, test builds and so forth.
- We communicate this with packagers (
nvmlikely most important) and give them time to prepare. - We reintroduce
sunosshould the build group ever get access to hardware/software to reliably build/test Node.js on.
/cc @misterdjules @geek
chorrell and geek