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outdated (think of automake/autoconf, often a problem) and problematic |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