Johannes Winkelmann wrote:
Hi,
I'm not quite sure here. Adapting the base and opt ports for CRUX/SPARC took me only a few days, and I did it alone. In real life, those changes don't happen all at the same time, so after the initial port, it's like 1 or 2 updates per day.
What makes you believe it's not acceptable?
not acceptable for little communities because they remains 1 or 2 updates per day if the number of ports remains of little entity, as it is now ... in order consider that "tests" can be made only by $ARCH developers Okay. With a community of three developers, that means that one will have to update ~5 ports every week with 2 updates per day. I definitely expect the x86 maintainers to be able to cope with this kind of load, and they're even required to follow the mailing lists etc. If we assume
On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 18:54:01 +0100, Giulivo Navigante wrote: the ports build fine, that's maybe an average of half an hour per port, which is 2.5 h per week. How much work/time are you guys willing to spend on this project?
Are you currently using any tools to sync your trees with the x86 one for those ports which require changes?
no, we've in mind to have /usr/ports/x86 and /usr/ports/ppc in the second tree will exists only the ports that needs to be modified on ppc No, I mean those ports which are modified; how do you sync those?
if the $ARCH community can instead use the "master" ports tree (it should be ok in the 90% of cases)
However, this only works if there's a single master tree. We from the x86 port lost a good number of important projects due to Daniel's move to x86_64, and chances are this will happen more often in the future. I don't think that a model with a single master tree is realistic for the future, considering the size of our team.
our idea instead is based on a "master" single tree where we should merge forces :P I'm not quite sure I understand you here. You want one tree which supports all architecures? Like gentoo, with if [ "$arch" = "ppc" ]; ... elif ... elif ... fi all over the Pkgfiles?
Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net