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On Sunday 02 May 2004 21:34, Pieter Van den Abeele wrote: |
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> I noted that projects whose requirements indicate they will be (amongst |
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> other architectures) ppc compatible, but are implemented and designed |
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> by people without much ppc expertise and whose lead hasn't proactively |
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> involved people with ppc expertise, at least for testing (assuming |
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> something testable is available), will require a lot of work on my part |
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> when they suddenly become obliged (as in: a feature for all the |
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> architectures releasing), in this case less than 2 weeks before I need |
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> to start building the 2004.2 release. (check releng release roadmap). |
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Maybe in general it might be an idea (also for other archs) to make a list of |
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the most common pitfalls (and their fixes) when using that arch. To mind come |
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things like big or little endian, and 64 vs. 32 bits. We might even go so far |
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as to write a description on how to correct broken upstream source. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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