Hi all,
first a big thanks for all the replies we got for the initial 'CRUX
next' thread [1]. We like to summarize the results a bit and do the
following proposal:
- we switch our main development platform to the x86_64 architecture.
This will be called CRUX 3.0 and will be the only version with
official support. We go for the "multilib ready" approach, meaning
that our toolchain is capable to produce 32-bit binaries. Besides
glibc-32 we will not ship any 32-bit compat library on our ISO.
We will merge everything needed for the above into our main repos
and add _one_ additional repo, called compat-32, for the 32-bit
compatibility libraries. After all we will have 4 official repos:
core, opt, xorg and compat-32.
- to give our users a smooth option to switch to x86_64 we create
a final i686 version, called CRUX 2.8. It includes the latest
toolchain and roughly all the stuff listed on [2].
If we find volunteers for it, we might create another repo, probably
called i686, as _one_ i686 overlay for the main repositories.
A summary timeline for the above should look something like this:
1. create a branch 2.8 based on 2.7 for the core/opt/xorg repos
2. update the toolchain and do verything described in [2]
3. release CRUX 2.8 for the i686 architecture
4. create a branch 3.0 based on 2.8 for the core/opt/xorg repos
and add the compat-32 repository
5. merge everything from *-x86_64.git and *-multilib.git into our
{core,opt,xorg,compat-32}.git repositories
6. release CRUX 3.0 for the x86_64 architecture
best regards
Matt + Juergen
[1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.crux.devel/2291
[2] http://crux.nu/Wiki/TODO28
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