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On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 23:17 +0100, Thomas Kahle wrote: |
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> Ruby is an interpreted language, I don't see any |
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> point in having every arch team do the testing for every small package. |
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> Could the ruby team add ~x86 themselves after testing on ~amd64, or are |
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> there compelling reasons to not do this? |
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This discussion has come up in the past, not just for Ruby. The |
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consensus seems to be that it's better to keep handling everything by |
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the arch teams, since there may be other issues besides compilation that |
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may cause differences on arches. I know of several arch-specific bugs in |
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interpreted Ruby code myself. |
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It's also a matter of where to stop. Each new keyword added in the end |
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is an additional maintenenance burden for that arch. I don't want to |
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make that decision since I won't be doing the work. |
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