On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 06:01:36PM -0800, Ben Barrett wrote: > but OTOH, to address one of Joseph's concern about lengthy compiles on > old platforms: I *imagine* and *hope* that these folks are > cross-compiling! Maybe they aren't, and you seem to know more about > it. But the need to cover so many platforms, from devs around the > world, would obviously increase the time to release... do you know if > people with Atari's are actually compiling X on their Atari's, for instance?
You know, there were suggestions about doing that back then. There were also a ready stack of reasons why Debian couldn't do that, such as cross compilers not always producing real/valid code and the large number of programs not designed to be cross-compiled. I would consider both to be the kinds of bugs we're always hearing about Debian striving to fix, personally. _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
