On Sat Jan 25, 2003 at 11:11:06PM +0100, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: [...] > >Yes the ports don't get very much attention. But the PPC port was an > >every other release port from the begining. So 8.0 was released, 8.1 > >was skipped, 8.2 was released, 9.0 was skipped... 9.1 is in progress. > > > > so, in the future mdk is going to have: > - i586 > - ia64 > - x64 (amd 64bit) > - ppc > (- alpha?) > (- sparc?) > > with the way mdk is currently working they won't be able to handle it.
Who said we were going to? I suppose ia64 and x64 are likely, but alpha and sparc? Those I sincerely doubt. I also don't see why we would want them to begin with. How many desktop users do you know that use an alpha or sparc at home on their desktop? =) > They'll need to: > 1/ automate the building process over multiple platforms > 2/ further improve the quality of the rpms (dependancies / provides / > requires) This should be done regardless, even if it's only x86 and PPC. -- MandrakeSoft Security; http://www.mandrakesecure.net/ "lynx -source http://linsec.ca/vdanen.asc | gpg --import" {FE6F2AFD : 88D8 0D23 8D4B 3407 5BD7 66F9 2043 D0E5 FE6F 2AFD}
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