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From: "Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo)" <kevquinn@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal?
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2006 12:26:10
Message-Id: 20060325133204.5f6b73ee@c1358217.kevquinn.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] overlay support current proposal? by Duncan Coutts
1 On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 11:46:58 +0000
2 Duncan Coutts <dcoutts@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 12:42 +0100, Kevin F. Quinn (Gentoo) wrote:
5 >
6 > > This is a valid issue, as ghc is only supplied upstream for linux
7 > > (some older versions available in mingw32).
8 >
9 > I don't think this is right. All the recent ghc versions have been
10 > supplied upstream on many OSs including installers for win32 and OSX.
11 > The OpenBSD, FreeBSD & Darwin ports systems include ghc.
12
13 Sorry, yes - I looked at the snapshot download pages where it's linux
14 and mingw32) instead of the release download pages (where it's linux
15 x86, x86_64, ppc, ppc64 and windows, FreeBSD x86, OpenBSD x86, MacOS X
16 and AIX).
17
18 However the issue still remains for non-x86/ppc platforms; sparc in
19 particular is likely to be used as a dev platform by some.
20
21 --
22 Kevin F. Quinn

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