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release builds: rename sunos to smartos #500

@jbergstroem

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@jbergstroem

[note: this post has been updated since its creation]

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

  1. From Node.js v7.0.0 and forward we will create tarballs using smartos instead of sunos.

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.

  1. We communicate this with packagers (nvm likely most important) and give them time to prepare.
  2. We reintroduce sunos should the build group ever get access to hardware/software to reliably build/test Node.js on.

/cc @misterdjules @geek

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