On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Philip Chee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 24/02/2015 19:28, Kyle Huey wrote: > > > Assuming you just want to know what the architecture of the build is, not > > what the architecture of the machine it's running on is, you're making > this > > far more complicated than it needs to be. "x86", "arm", and "ppc" are 32 > > bit, "x86_64" and "aarch64" are 64 bit. I'm not sure why you care about > 64 > > bit PowerPC, since afaik we never shipped a release on it, but it will be > > "ppc64". I'm also not sure why you care about arcane architectures like > > Itanium, Alpha, and SPARC, since there are approximately zero users of > > those. > > I'm pretty sure that there is more than one user on SPARC since Sun (and > then Oracle) had at least one developer assigned to keep Firefox > building on Solaris/SunOS5. A quick google shows pre built Firefox > packages for both x64 and SPARC. > > Phil > > -- > Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> > http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org > Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, > oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > It was not meant to be taken literally. It's a commentary on the relative number of users of various architectures. Architectures with so few users are not going to influence his telemetry statistics. - Kyle _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
