From arekm at maven.pl  Mon Jul 13 13:01:16 2009
From: arekm at maven.pl (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:01:16 +0200
Subject: Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained (end of July 2009)
Message-ID: <200907131301.16458.arekm@maven.pl>


www.pld-linux.org news:

"13 July 2009 Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained

ppc and athlon architectures in PLD Th line will become officialy deprecated 
at the end of July 2009 and moved out of official directory at PLD ftp server. 
Users of athlon arch are asked to switch to i686. ppc fate is unknown (there 
is a chance of keeping ppc alive in form of unofficial branch)."

Reasons:
- athlon arch provides almost no gain over i686
- lack of fast ppc server acting as builder (current one is slow and breaks 
too often) and, what is more important, lack of developer power to handle ppc 
arch
-- 
Arkadiusz Mi?kiewicz        PLD/Linux Team
arekm / maven.pl            http://ftp.pld-linux.org/


From qboosh at pld-linux.org  Mon Jul 13 18:01:27 2009
From: qboosh at pld-linux.org (Jakub Bogusz)
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:01:27 +0200
Subject: Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained (end of July 2009)
In-Reply-To: <200907131301.16458.arekm@maven.pl>
References: <200907131301.16458.arekm@maven.pl>
Message-ID: <20090713160127.GA14585@stranger.qboosh.pl>

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 01:01:16PM +0200, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:
> www.pld-linux.org news:
> 
> "13 July 2009 Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained
> 
> ppc and athlon architectures in PLD Th line will become officialy deprecated 
> at the end of July 2009 and moved out of official directory at PLD ftp server. 
> Users of athlon arch are asked to switch to i686. ppc fate is unknown (there 
> is a chance of keeping ppc alive in form of unofficial branch)."

So sb needs to update or shorten the summary on main page: "wide variety of
architectures" will mean one really supported then (3 models, 2 ABIs)


-- 
Jakub Bogusz    http://qboosh.pl/