# remove all Oracle Solaris support · gitcafe/zig

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Requested revision: dba1bf935390ddb0184a4dc72245454de6c06fd2

Requested commit: dba1bf935390ddb0184a4dc72245454de6c06fd2

Commit: dba1bf935390ddb0184a4dc72245454de6c06fd2

Tree: bd1d1477665e24af8d331ff2852bd23c0160ccea

Author: Alex Rønne Petersen

Committer: Andrew Kelley

## Message

```
remove all Oracle Solaris support

There is no straightforward way for the Zig team to access the Solaris system
headers; to do this, one has to create an Oracle account, accept their EULA to
download the installer ISO, and finally install it on a machine or VM. We do not
have to jump through hoops like this for any other OS that we support, and no
one on the team has expressed willingness to do it.

As a result, we cannot audit any Solaris contributions to std.c or other
similarly sensitive parts of the standard library. The best we would be able to
do is assume that Solaris and illumos are 100% compatible with no way to verify
that assumption. But at that point, the solaris and illumos OS tags would be
functionally identical anyway.

For Solaris especially, any contributions that involve APIs introduced after the
OS was made closed-source would also be inherently more risky than equivalent
contributions for other proprietary OSs due to the case of Google LLC v. Oracle
America, Inc., wherein Oracle clearly demonstrated its willingness to pursue
legal action against entities that merely copy API declarations.

Finally, Oracle laid off most of the Solaris team in 2017; the OS has been in
maintenance mode since, presumably to be retired completely sometime in the 2030s.

For these reasons, this commit removes all Oracle Solaris support.

Anyone who still wishes to use Zig on Solaris can try their luck by simply using
illumos instead of solaris in target triples - chances are it'll work. But there
will be no effort from the Zig team to support this use case; we recommend that
people move to illumos instead.

```

## Parents

- [9161923405d1048dd6932d933b14feeb1d7c2849](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zig/commit/9161923405d1048dd6932d933b14feeb1d7c2849?format=markdown)

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