Re: [gentoo-osx] New document: Project targets

[Nathan]

> As you will all know after the last GWN, we are a prefixed project.  I
> tried to tell the GWN folks that we aren't, but apparently they didn't
> believe me.  Who am I, heh?  For sure, I can't know.  If there are more
> things that more or less require some discretion, due to mail volumes,
> extreme beta-bility, etc., please don't hesitate to catch me in
> non-recordable places such as IRC or personal email.  I prefer the
> latter.  Perhaps it is also a good idea to keep CVS/SVN commit messages
> a bit vague from now on.[1]
>
> Anywayz, I wrote a new page yesterday:
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/gentoo-alt/macos/targets.xml

Sooo, after reading your new page I don't understand your comment
about not being a prefixed project, unless you are talking about your
defined distinction between "Gentoo for Mac OS X" and "Gentoo Portage
for Mac OS X."


"Because "Darwin Portage" is not suitable for a mainstream user
distribution, it was chosen to change the direction towards "Gentoo
Portage for Mac OS X" [PREFIXED PROJECT], to enable Gentoo's Mac OS X
project to continue and innovate again.
...
but large investments are not being done, unless they are directly
reusable in the prefixed environment."

^-- Whatever you call it, it appears you've officially chosen to focus
on the prefixed path.  Good news to me, as a working prefixed system
is what I've been waiting for for over a year now.  (Last December
pvdabeel was saying he working on a prototype that should be usable in
January....then February, then maybe March, then he disappeared.)

I appreciate the labels+definitions for the alternatives.  That makes
it loads easier to refer to things and have some reasonable hope that
others will understand what you're referring to.

> The page should fill a gap in the explanation of our road ahead, and my
> vision on the plcament of various things.  Comments are welcome, both
> text-wise as content-wise.  The document efforts might be re-used at a
> later stage on Gentoo/Alt level.  I chose to put it in our garden,
> because the focus of development comes from our team at the moment.

Actually, the page quite admirably explained the past, the
alternatives, and why the present focus is (rightly) turning towards
prefixed efforts.  The future ("road ahead") wasn't really explicitly
mentioned.  I'd welcome a tentative future timeline at the bottom of
the doc, if possible.  The common question outside of the core dev
team seems to be "When will there be something that works that I can
use [and/or contribute to]?"

~ Nathan

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