On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:59:10 +0100 Danilo Pianini <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thinking about priorities, I agree with Ian: the installer deserves > our attention before the ARM support. + > Given that, ARM is going to be more and more important in near future, > so I see favourably the strengthening of the ARM build servers. +/- Let me share my opinion about current process of building packages for ARMs. As far as I know, many of them are very outdated (Firefox 13?). And bringing them up to date would take much time (and steal all that CPU cycles for tasks on Intel arches). And even Matter doesn't seem to help that much. Who would like to use such semi-outdated system? What would make sense would be to use stable keywords on ARMs. It means older packages, but older SUPPORTED packages is much better than newer-yet-outdated packages, that may be missing "functionality" and security fixes. Let Firefox be an example: unsupported Firefox 13 is worse that long-time-supported (AFAIK) Firefox 10. Another plus from this is less compilation.
