PLD 2.1 again

[Andrzej 'The Undefined' Dopierała]

On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 05:43:26PM +0200, Marcin Król wrote:
> I've finally decided that I'll give PLD 2.1 a try. Both gcc and glibc
> compile and work (at least on x86). Since it will be more like Th than
> Ac I also decided that it deservers new codename. Next in order is
> reserverd for PLD 4.x so I've chosen completly different one: Ti. It IMO
> prefectly matches here: not Ac, similiar to Th :)
> 
> Now some details:
> 
> - gcc 4.1.2 (from gcc4.spec on AC-branch)
> - glibc from HEAD
> - rpm from HEAD
> - more stuff from Th like xorg, gnome 2.18 etc.

ok, so.. where is difference between Ti and Th?

> - i386 will be removed (not supported by glibc)
> - alpha and sparc probably will be removed too (see below)
what about users of these architecturs?
ac-updates will be available after "ti" release? or completly drop
users?

> A word about killing alpha and sparc. I'd like to see PLD 2.1 Ti as
> transitional version between Ac and Th. So I want it to be as close to
> Th as possible while keeping possibility of "clean upgrade" from Ac. By
> "clean upgrade" here I mean that "poldek --upgrade-dist" will work
> without errors after changing sources and that all services will keep
> working too. Besides, if there will be no PLD 2.1 one will eventualy
> have to upgrade to Th, so he will face same problem with missing/renamed
> architectures. PLD 2.1 Ti will give such person at least greater chances
> that everything in his/her system will keep working after upgrade.

I haven't time to pld now, so i can't vote here... but i don't see any
sense to make "yet another th".. not better way is help th to be more
stable distribution with easer upgrade from ac? Make another th with few
older packages like gcc? Why?

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