Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 17:23:48 +0100, Giulivo Navigante wrote:
Johannes Winkelmann wrote: [...]
My goal is to have a system with the following properties:
1. The user only gets ports tested on this platform
i think this is very difficult to realize and not useful... infact $ARCH developers should perform a test for every known port and this is not acceptable specially for little communities 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? Are you currently using any tools to sync your trees with the x86 one for those ports which require changes?
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.
Regards, Johannes -- Johannes Winkelmann mailto:jw@tks6.net Bern, Switzerland http://jw.tks6.net