Brian Nelson wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 11:33:35AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 10:57:47PM +0000, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > But a total of eleven is insane. > > > > It is sometimes hard to get them all to work, yes. > > > > It also vastly increases the quality of the Free Software in our > > archive, as we discover bugs that appear only on one architecture. > > That's an overstatement. Simply having two architectures (i386 and ppc) > would be enough to reveal nearly all portability bugs. > > And for the more obscure architectures, virtually all of the testing > comes from the build of the package.
That's incorrect, at least from my experience. > How many people out there are > actually using e.g. KDE on mips enough to actually find any portability > bugs? I use some kde programs on mips and haven't found portability bugs so far. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
