On 11/8/06, Steve Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I was wondering about was what mechanism you might use to provide those
binary packages; would other devs also be contributing? Or is there simply
nothing that might be useful for a binary distro?
Wrt the Seeds project, it's too early to
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 04:47, Steve Long wrote:
I understand the ABI changes at major compiler upgrades, especially for
C++. Is this such a problem for C? I thought that was the whole point of
the Linux ABI (so developers can in fact use the same binary for different
distros.)
I'm
Mike Frysinger wrote:
On Friday 03 November 2006 03:47, Steve Long wrote:
If gentoo is still serious about enterprise adoption
Gentoo as an entire whole is not really serious about anything
I thought you were serious about being a great project.
last i checked, it was the server project
[I'm separating the ABI issue into the thread below from Marius Mauch]
Stuart Herbert wrote:
I'm interested in providing binary packages for updating
systems, yes - systems that are running seeds. Whether they're
provided through Gentoo or not hasn't yet been discussed at all. We
need to
Marius Mauch wrote:
Sure. Presumably you test packages with standard C-flags as users are
advised to before bug-reporting? Other than USE flags what else would
make your packages unsuitable for others? If it's only USE flags,
then at least the pkg is a start- if others want different settings
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 22:47, Steve Long wrote:
I understand the ABI changes at major compiler upgrades, especially for
C++. Is this such a problem for C?
i think you misread his e-mail
regardless, stable ABIs guarantee forward compatibility, not backwards
you're also not considering the
