On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 8:53 AM, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:59:24 +0000 "Clark, Joel" <[email protected]>
> said:
>
> agreed. it's rather embarrassing not to be able to self-host given that
> tizen
> is an entire OS.
>
> imagine if all the engineers and executives etc. at bmw drove fords because
> "bmw's can't manage to get us to the office without breaking down".
>
>
Awesome analogy.

I am also against dropping 32 bit system support for dev tools.
I bet many people I know use 32 bit system yet.

Daniel Juyung Seo (SeoZ)


> we're not building specialized mining equipment. that won't get us to the
> office. tizen is a general os. it has to be by its very nature.
>
> > It is disappointing that the tools for doing Tizen local builds are not
> > expected to run on Tizen.  I consider it an obvious hard requirement that
> > should be tested regularly.
> >
> > Regards
> > Joel
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jian-feng Ding
> Sent:
> > Sunday, September 22, 2013 2:39 AM To: Kok, Auke-jan H
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Tizen General] Tizen platform development tools survey :
> > dropping 32bit linux support
> >
> > Hi, Auke
> >
> > The major reason of 32bit-linux-platform tools support dropping plan is
> the
> > qemu issue: we still have no stable 32bit qemu-static executable for
> current
> > Tizen, which is very important for the local build and image creation in
> > 32bit development systems.
> >
> > And the future 64bit support of Tizen itself is only the last straw of
> it.
> > Whenever the 64bit Tizen development is the necessary part of developers'
> > work, they can only use 64bit development environment.
> >
> > thanks
> > - jf.ding
> >
> > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:47:54PM -0700, Kok, Auke-jan H wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Tomasz Olszak <
> [email protected]>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I'm opposed to this.
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> 64bit support in Tizen is not yet mainstream at all, as a matter of
> > > >> fact it's barely been implemented in 3.0, and no major release that
> > > >> developers can use yet has happened.
> > > >>
> > > >> Can we maintain 32bit code until most developers have had a major
> > > >> release on 64bit? It will be a significant amount of time until
> > > >> that really happens.
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I think that question concerns development tools (gbs, qemu and so
> > > > on) not the architecture of Tizen.
> > >
> > > I was referring to this part that Zhang wrote:
> > >
> > > >> As Tizen will support 64bit build in the future, which can only be
> > > >> built by >> using 64bit system, so it's recommended to switch to
> 64bit
> > > >> system ASAP.
> > >
> > > My argument is that this motivation is somewhat premature - we want to
> > > use the tools on tizen itself (Zhang is not disputing that, nor am I)
> > > but the notion that 64bit support in Tizen itself is mature and
> > > everyone is using it (and gbs/mic on it) is obviously false.
> > >
> > > From that follows that 64bit tools on Tizen could not have been
> > > extensively been tested. So why remove support for 32bit tools that
> > > are being tested and used right now if nobody is yet using and testing
> > > on 64bit? Sounds premature to me - the word "ASAP" certainly is.
> > >
> > > Auke
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