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"SunOS" should be "SmartOS" in downloads page. #1987

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Alhadis opened this issue Jan 16, 2019 · 3 comments
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"SunOS" should be "SmartOS" in downloads page. #1987

Alhadis opened this issue Jan 16, 2019 · 3 comments

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@Alhadis
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Alhadis commented Jan 16, 2019

"SunOS" is misleading, because it could be taken to mean "any OS derived from SunOS", which includes Oracle Solaris. Node.js's binaries (naturally) don't run on Solaris 11.3+, nor will they compile.

Updating that wording could save the next poor fool who lost 2 hours of his life debugging before noticing that only SmartOS is listed in the supported platforms table. :-)

@fhemberger
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/cc @nodejs/build

All binaries are still labeled sunos.

@rvagg
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rvagg commented Jan 17, 2019

sunos is in the tarball name for historical reasons .. we did discuss changing that once but it never happened. It's one of those things that are difficult to do without breaking workflows for many people. We also have zero plans to ship real Solaris builds fwiw.

I'm +1 on changing the wording on the website if we have it anywhere.

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sunos is in the tarball name for historical reasons .. we did discuss changing that once but it never happened.

For reference: nodejs/build#500

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