Future of Ac... or even of PLD

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

On Thursday 22 of March 2007, Marcin Król wrote:

> > I hope that fork is a joke. I don't see any benefit from a fork in
> > comparison to simply working on AC-branch.
>
> Unfortunately this is not a joke. Keeping Ac up to date means dealing
> with architectures that I don't need (alpha, sparc, ppc, amd64) and
> updating packages I don't use. Keeping my own fork means to care only
> about i686 and a set of specs that I use. Calculation is simple. So if
> at some point no one except me will be interested in working on Ac and
> Th will not be usable for me, I'll have to drop Ac. Of course I hope
> that will not happen.

Still do that without forking. Having updated i686 (so I guess x86 in generic) 
is better than no updates at all.

> > I regret that Th switched to gcc 4.2 so early but at this moment I don't
> > consider switching back to gcc 4.1 (note that gcc 4.2 rc1 (more beta than
> > rc) was recently released and we already using it + most of the problems
> > is in software, not in gcc itself).
>
> Problems are in software, yes. However most of them appear only in
> combination with gcc 4.2 AFAIK?

Yes, in most cases. Of course there are some bugs in gcc itself, too.

> Installer is different story and not for this topic ;)

Th won't have floppy install disks - that's for sure. I was thinking about 
using livecd as base for anaconda installer.  So far nothing happened in that 
area (too many ideas; too little time).

> M.

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Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
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