On 06/06/05, Julien BLACHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael K. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ensuring that packages build and run properly on a wide variety of > > architectures is _work_. I happen to think that it's worthwhile work, > > It is work, but it's up to the maintainers to track their builds. The > release team really shouldn't have to worry about that for each and > every package in the distribution. Yes it is for most, the less archs the better, because then it's easier to get specific feedback from a wider group of technical abilities on a package (i'm speaking generally). How many entry level computer users get a Sparc or another non-mainstream processor. > > Unfortunately, far too many developers do not give a shit about > anything else but i386. I think most do "give a shit" about other platforms, I think it's just the way everyone (esp people that buy these odd archs without really finding out how good the support is for it first) expects a developer to have every single arch that their program/package gets built on in their office/bedroom/coding room (yes apparently some people have them) so they can provide support for all of them. This is really, a) mad & b) unpractical because some developers/maintainers are a) students, b) workers on already tight timelines (with other commitments), c) any other group that i havn't mentioned. Hence causing these people to loose interest on all other archs other than their own (i think the feeling goes the same way for dev's using sparc and that don't have i386's to test on.)
No meaning to Sparc (i'm not sure if I even spelt it right), just the first one I could think of. > > JB. > > -- > Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Public key available on <http://www.jblache.org> - KeyID: F5D6 5169 > GPG Fingerprint : 935A 79F1 C8B3 3521 FD62 7CC7 CD61 4FD7 F5D6 5169 > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Now I most likely went right offtopic here, but yeah, if I did, then sorry. -- N Jones Proud Debian & FOSS User Debian Maintainer of html2ps & ipkungfu
