Re: [gentoo-alt] Prefix-standalone profile has upgraded into dev

[Sam Pfeiffer]

Great and exciting news!

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 4:25 PM Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o> wrote:

> On 30-09-2019 09:28:17 +0800, Benda Xu wrote:
> > Jacob Godserv <jacobgodserv@×××××.com> writes:
> >
> > > Wow! This is huge! Congratulations to the Prefix team for their hard
> > > work and the unofficial volunteers that supported them! This has been
> > > so long in the making I resigned myself to it never
> > > happening. Incredible!
> >
> > Thank you Jacob.  It has been a long journey since around ~2005
> > (@Fabian, correct me if I am wrong).  Prefix has gradually matured over
> > the years, with love from all of us in the community.
>
> I joined in 2005.  At that time there were a few hundreds of packages
> keyworded for ~ppc-macos.  Main people that had been working on there
> (that I know of) were ferringb, kito, pvdabeel, gongloo and j4rg0n.  The
> project started as Gentoo for Mac OS X.  Around 2008 this became Gentoo
> Prefix (as we know it today) because a shift was made from installing
> "missing" software on Mac OS X in the usual locations (/usr/bin, etc.)
> to installing replacement software in a different location, replacing
> host software, and therefore relying as little as possible on that
> software.  Initially it was easy to use Mac OS X's provided software,
> because it was up-to-date, but as time went, the software became
> outdated (think of automake/autoconf, often a problem) and problematic
> (Apple-specific modifications, or unfixed bugs because of old versions).
> Thus the only way forward was to install as much as possible Gentoo
> "versions", the sole aim of Gentoo Prefix.
>
> > The feeling that Prefix would remain an experimental project was real.
> > But as the quality of Prefix steadily grows, we could envision it to be
> > of production level hereafter.
>
> I'm happy to see it more mature for the Linux platforms.  We've always
> been struggling to keep it "working".  Historically, the macOS "target"
> was best supported, followed by Solaris, but as these platforms
> continued to evolve, or age, we couldn't always keep up fixing the
> packages and bootstrap process.  Even today this is the case.
>
> There were a lot of contributors as wel as Gentoo devs that came and
> went over the years, making countless efforts and spending many hours to
> analyse, test and fix packages, processes or scenarios.  For those of
> you, if you're still watching, your input has been vital for making the
> project what it has become today.  It's still running, and for some
> scenarios still working fine/being super useful.
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Fabian
>
>
> > Big cheers to us all.
> >
> > Yours,
> > Benda
> >
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level
>


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*Sammy Pfeiffer*
PhD Candidate at The Magic Lab within UTS.