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On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:31 PM, Ruud Koolen <redlizard@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi all, |
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> I have recently been doing some cleanup work to the bootstrap script, |
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> getting |
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> rid of cruft here and there. My goals in this have been twofold: part of |
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I do have to say that I respect your goals here. The essential problem is |
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that bootstrapping is fragile. We all agree there. However, to introduce a |
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fundamental change to the process, you will encounter resistance. Now, you |
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are testing on the "easiest" platform that Gentoo Prefix supports - linux. |
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Such that there is no automated testing, I'd strongly advise that you start |
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compiling a list of platforms where the "new" method works. Since you are |
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the champion of this new idea, it should be your responsibility to ensure |
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that there is no loss of support. Now, the hard part is that one person |
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does not have access to many platforms. I would get ahold of SLES 10&11, |
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which has been historically, the hardest linux flavor to support. Ping Alan |
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(one of our most active contributors over the years) to see how FreeMiNT |
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goes. You get some access to solaris from Fabian (but I think there is some |
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version open sourced?). Of course there is others too.. |
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Does that make sense? |
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