On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Jaroslaw Zachwieja wrote: > At the moment, to my knowledge we have the following machines _dedicated_ > to non-intel cooker development (please, developers, fill in all blanks): > > PPC > > - 1 x ?????? - Olivier Thauvin > - others? >
I've let Olivier take over cooker PPC build because our official release schedule for PPC (subject to change/review of the business needs) is every other release. My experience in 3 PPC releases is that very few people actually use PPC cooker, unless there are ISOs. So aside from personal curiosity that things build or not, it hardly seems worth the bandwidth/machine time to build cooker for PPC now, when the next release is 9 months out, if the business decides it's worth pursuing at all. While interest in all these ports is very nice, if MandrakeSoft doesn't bless them and negotiate space on the mirrors for them, then you're going to have to end up hosting them from some other server. Rebuilding packages for other arches is fairly straightforward, but in my opinion what makes the distribution "Mandrake" is the integration of the installer and drak tools to behave appropriately for the architecture. -- Stew Benedict
