On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:01:38AM +0100, Michal Nowak wrote: > > Whatever the terminology on the projects relation, what I am really > interested in is the OI amd64 development not being adversely affected.
We agree. That's one of my objectives too. > Although I am not excited about it, I don't mind SPARC changes in the > OpenIndiana GitHub projects (Makefiles, patches, .p5m files, ...), provided > that OI does not guarantee anything for SPARC, including: > > * we update a component which fails to build on SPARC, we don't retract, That's fine. It will be fixed by me or one of the other SPARC developers. > * updated component's SPARC patch fails to apply and it's too complicated to > fix it, we remove it for the time being and re-apply when SPARC developers > come up with a fixed patch, That's quite unlikely to happen. The changes are usually quite simple. In most cases there are no changes. > * we don't test that changes build the less work on SPARC I don't understand this condition. > I don't think that's a great experience for SPARC re-builders from > OpenIndiana/oi-userland. It's still better than having no modern and free OS available for SPARC equipment. -- -Gary Mills- -refurb- -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada- _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list oi-dev@openindiana.org https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev