On Mar 11, 2009, at 8:24 AM, Brian Moon wrote:
I don't think you should. Again, Drizzle is an alpha level product
if I
am not mistaken so support existing distros may not make a lot of
sense,
because by the time Drizzle is ready for prime-time, GCC 4.2 may
already
be available. Besides, if you can still distribute binary packages
for
various distros that were built with GCC 4.2, I would really call
this
small potatoes.
In my mind, the point of build bots is to ensure that Drizzle will
compile on platform X for user Y without much trouble. I agree that
we are still in alpha with Drizzle. I have other stuff masked on
Gentoo that I need to do my job, so it is not that big of a deal for
me to mask gcc. I was just not sure if my thoughts about the
purpose of the build bots matched the communities thoughts. Sounds
like Monty wants to be as compatible with as many distros, as they
are, as possible.
<off-topic>
I'm sure you do :) I'd be willing to bet MySQL 5.1 is one such masked
package (that or a custom ebuild). Gentoo's handling of MySQL in
general (recall the uber stupid symlink disaster of 5.0 or the lack of
a recent 5.1 being available) was the catalyst in me opting to switch
my own servers to Ubuntu. Been happy ever since. Gentoo has SOO much
potential but it's all for nothing if people aren't rowing in the same
direction. They have no good leadership or visionaries (didn't their
former cult leader leave to go work for Microsoft?). Kinda makes me
sad really because I used to be a huge Gentoo fanboy. Many of the
ideas, on paper, are really awesome. How they are being deployed in
practice is another story. Gentoo basically needs their own
Shuttleworth. If they had someone like him, it'd be a force to be
reckoned with.
</off-topic>
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