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Hey /haubi/, |
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Thanks for all the kind words, and much more thanks for your numerous |
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contributions on especially very hard problems (such as ncurses with |
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libtool, and other mostly toolchain related). |
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I hope we will see you around sometimes, I was even hoping to meet you |
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once again at a FOSDEM. |
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Whatever it is you do, take care, have fun, and compile it :) |
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Many thanks, |
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Fabian |
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On 09-12-2020 20:01:58 +0100, Michael Haubenwallner wrote: |
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> Dear Gentoo Prefix folks! |
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> |
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> TL;DR |
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> It was a great pleasure to grow up Gentoo Prefix with you, yet for me |
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> the time has come to leave. Thank you so much for a great experience! |
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> |
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> A story of success: |
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> Back in 2004, at work, for a number of 3 packages I have been requested to |
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> realize some mechanism to compile+install them together into some custom |
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> filesystem location as normal (non-root) user on the proprietary Unix |
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> platforms AIX (ppc), HP-UX (hppa, ia64) and Solaris (sparc, x86). |
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> So I invented some package installer, using GNU make to resolve dependencies |
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> and parallelize the build, with Bourne Shell files to define the package |
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> metadata, dependencies and compilation commands. |
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> By the time, the list of packages I had to define in my installer grew up |
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> and started to include things like GCC and some FOSS libraries. |
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> Around the same time, a colleague told me about Gentoo Linux to be a really |
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> cool distro, and I migrated away from Debian as a Linux user. |
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> But it took me another ~2 years to realize that my invented package format |
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> really is based on the very same ideas as the Gentoo ebuild format... |
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> |
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> Here, multiple great Thanks! to Fabian (grobian) Groffen, fortunately a Gentoo |
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> developer by that time already, for: |
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> * Understanding the goal behind my initial Portage patch I submitted to install |
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> packages into some custom filesystem location as a normal user, |
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> * Recognizing at all that a Portage patch has been submitted, |
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> * Creating the Prefix project within the Gentoo ecosystem as sub-project of |
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> the already existing gentoo-alt (Gentoo on Alternative Platforms) project, |
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> * Providing non-Gentoo resources to run the Prefix project, |
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> * Leading the Prefix project for a really long time, |
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> * Mentoring myself to become a Gentoo developer as well, |
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> * Drinking some beer together at FOSDEM a few times, |
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> * a lot more |
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> |
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> Also, great Thanks! to all the (current and former) Prefix developers, namely |
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> Benda (heroxbd) XU for leading Prefix these days, as well as Gentoo developers |
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> for supporting or at least accepting Prefix in general. |
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> |
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> Within the company, I have released forks of Gentoo Prefix in 2010 and 2015, |
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> with some help of Markus (mduft) Duft to build packages necessary for our |
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> application as native Windows binaries using the MSVC compiler, with the |
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> driving Portage instance running in a Prefix instance on Cygwin. |
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> |
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> Using one Prefix instance (having build deps) to manage another one (without |
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> build deps) is known as Prefix-Stack these days, and supported to a great |
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> degree by EAPI 7. |
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> In 2019, I did hand over to a team of 3 colleagues, and they succeeded in |
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> releasing our fork of Prefix in 2020 on their own already. They actually |
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> intend to show up with some patches in the Prefix community, but as it's |
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> not their main task, this may eventually be delayed until some 2025 release. |
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> For myself, a month after FOSDEM'20 I have switched my work focus onto the |
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> Java world, but still I'm really proud to see the Prefix baby live on it's |
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> own, exploring the world in a way I never could imagine! |
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> While I have to see whether I can remain active enough to keep my status |
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> as Gentoo developer, I'm definitively inactive as Prefix developer now. |
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> So long, thank you for a great experience, it was a really good time! |
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> All the best, |
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> /haubi/ |
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-- |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |