Note: "some" is the key word in the sentence above.I'm changing the subject because you're talking non-Intel builds but Mandrake does develop and support non-Intel builds. We are not an Intel-only shop so please don't describe it as such.
5) From your mail, it seems that we /MIGHT/ be able to run the porting for the following architectures: Alpha, (Mips?), PPC, Sparc64 (32?) and X86_64.
You don't need to post to PPC and X86_64. Mandrake builds for and supportes the following archs: x86, ia64, x86_64, and PPC.
I think you guys are missing the point that some of these archs are being developed and supported.
IA64: Last package uploaded:
-rw-r--r-- 1 mandrake rpm 171556 Feb 28 09:54 ispell-3.1.20-16mdk.ia64.rpm
'nough said.
PPC: Stews comments reflect a different picture:
"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."
Seems like Stew isn't developping ppc at the moment. From what I read above, by the time release date for ppc is near (and management _wants_ the product) he'll start a development sprint...
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*comments like:*
"subject to change/review of the business needs"
*and
* "**if the business decides it's worth pursuing at all*"
don't sound like there is a whole lot of commitment behind the PPC product from management, or am I wrong? I hope I am.
x86_64 is (is it?) being developed somewhere out of sight...
with kind regards,
Stefan
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