Here're some numbers to support Wookey's point that the huge majority of
users only care about gcc,g++ on arm*. Since July I've been running an
unofficieal APT server to host these packages until they could make it
into Debian proper. I built packages for these arches:
- armel
- armhf
- mips
- mipsel
- powerpc
- arm64
I built these frontends:
- C
- C++
- Fortran
- Java
- Go
- Objective C
- Objective C++
armhf:
69 cpp-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
68 gcc-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
37 g++-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
3 gobjc-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
2 gobjc++-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
2 gfortran-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
2 gcj-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
2 gccgo-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabihf
2 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-arm-linux-gnueabihf
armel:
47 gcc-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
44 cpp-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
16 g++-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
2 gobjc++-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
2 gfortran-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
2 gcj-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
2 gccgo-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
2 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-arm-linux-gnueabi
1 gobjc-4.9-arm-linux-gnueabi
arm64 (Not available as long as arm32*)
5 gcc-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
5 g++-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
5 cpp-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gobjc-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gobjc++-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gfortran-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gcj-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gccgo-4.9-aarch64-linux-gnu
2 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-aarch64-linux-gnu
Everything else
7 cpp-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
6 gcc-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
6 gcc-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
6 g++-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
6 cpp-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
5 g++-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
4 g++-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
4 cpp-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
3 gobjc-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gobjc++-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gfortran-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gcj-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gccgo-4.9-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-mipsel-linux-gnu
3 gcc-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gobjc-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gobjc-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gobjc++-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gobjc++-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gfortran-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gfortran-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gcj-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gcj-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gccgo-4.9-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gccgo-4.9-mips-linux-gnu
2 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-powerpc-linux-gnu
2 gcc-4.9-plugin-dev-mips-linux-gnu
The counts for the frontends that aren't C or C++ are so low, they are
likely ALL from people testing stuff, rather than actual users.
Doko: can you tell us what the specific problem is? So far all I'm
getting from the discussions is that you don't like it, but that's not
actionable, and I'm certain there are more specific problems that we can
try to resolve. Is there a maintenance burden on you to support this? If
so, I'm sure some of us can step in to help maintain this. Let's try to
find a solution that makes everybody happy, INCLUDING users.
dima
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