On 06/21/2012 01:27 PM, Peter J. Philipp wrote:
Hi,
Since deraadt mentioned the names of people who left to bitrig and I'm
wondering what will happen to the macppc port? Is it going to go the
route of the mac68k port too? I saw some commits earlier on it so that
got my hopes up...
I have a G4 Cube running OpenBSD/macppc and it has a lifetime of another
2 years or so despite being 11 years old. Its benefit is it's low watt
draw (35 watts) and its silence no fans. I replaced its hd with an ssd
so it doesn't hum. I sleep beside it iow.
-peter
I don't think OpenBSD/macppc is going away any time soon.
I've never heard any mention of it...and if the talk about mac68k going
away is any indication, the time between first talk and actually
happening is something on the order of ten years :) (and again..I've
seen no talk!).
Mac68k basically went away because there was no one who cared to keep it
up, and it really was a pain in the butt. See Miod's post to mac68k@
for the details, but let me add "one week for 'make build'", plus
another week for X, and that doesn't work anyway, and heck, it spends
most of its time broke. And that assumes the build worked. Think about
the frustration of running a build for four days...and getting an error.
You apply a fix, and ... four days later, you find something else.
Yes, this happened to me recently. Think what this means to someone
trying to bring a new feature to mac68k.
Plus...we have very little evidence anyone was actually USING mac68k.
NONE of this applies to macppc. The ONLY thing in common between mac68k
and macppc in the OpenBSD project is the first three letters, and no one
is confusing the two platforms.
Nick.
