On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:02:55AM -0500, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Mar 16, 2011, at 05:45 , Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > > 16.03.2011, 13:33, "Ade Lovett" <a...@freebsd.org>: > >> On Mar 16, 2011, at 04:39 , Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > >> > >>> What will happen to ports in non-clang arches (sparc64, ia64) after 9.0R? > >> > >> With any luck, they will die a silent death and be pointed in the > >> direction of NetBSD that likes to look after irrelevant architectures. > >> i386/amd64 for primary use, arm/mips for embedded. Anything else is just > >> ridiculous. > > > > What about Power Architecrure (formerly PowerPC)? > > It's widely used both for embedded and enterprise (pSeries, Blue Gene, etc.) > > Surprisingly enough, there is an _enormous_ difference between making > FreeBSD/src run on a particular platform (which is pretty much > self-contained), and then making FreeBSD (src+22,000 ports) run on a > particular platform (which isn't). > > Let's take the embedded example at random (well, not so much, since we both > brought it up). Forcibly define WITHOUT_X11 on those platforms -- that'll > nuke a whole bunch of stuff. That's the low hanging fruit. In fact, it may > well be easier to define ONLY_FOR_ARCHES?= i386 amd64 in bsd.port.mk and then > _override_ it for those few ports, and dependencies, that actually make sense > on an embedded system. > > With 9.0-RELEASE, as far as ports/packages go, we'll be back to trying to > support 4 major releases (7.4, 8.2, 9.0)-STABLE, 9.1-CURRENT (or will it be > 10.0), two fundamentally different compilers (between 7.x/8.x and 9.0), > eleventy-billion ports, with perhaps 2 people in the entire universe wanting > to run doxygen on a mips box. > > Enough is enough. > > -aDe
Is this your personal view? Or the view of the Ports Management Team? Are you, or the Ports Management Team, going to actively encourage "silent death"? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
