On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 19:35 -0400, Christopher Blizzard wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 09:49 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> And before somebody barks about it, I don't want to see us
> 'officially supporting' an arch that has a tiny fraction of the user base.
> *cough* ppc
ppc might be a small part of our user base, but at least it's very easy
to get something that's fast and well supported. Of the arches we're
talking about ppc is clearly the one that is one that is most grey.
Arm? Sparc? Other? I don't think anyone has any illusions about
whether or not those are secondary arches. :)
If the Cabal is going to decree that we're going to abandon good
engineering practice and let partially-failed builds make it through
into the repository without even a cursory inspection by the packager,
then there's a lot to be said for ensuring that our "primary arches"
include at least something 32-bit, something 64-bit, something
little-endian and something big-endian.
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