Jérôme Marant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you saying that technical choices do not contribute to the success > of Canonical? For instance, deciding to target the distribution at > most popular architectures only?
Supporting a reduced range of both targets and software makes life slightly easier, yes. But I've no especially good reason to believe that they'd be less successful if they had a slightly larger staff and supported all our architectures. It's not the technical issues with supporting multiple architectures that give us problems - it's the social issues surrounding access to buildds, incorporation into architectures, people failing to fix architecture specific bugs, people demanding that people fix architecture specific bugs, that sort of thing. It's undoubtedly true that we could release slightly faster with fewer architectures, but it's also true that we'd find something else to argue about in order to remove any advantage. > I'd be insterested in hearing your point of view on the technical > flaws as well. In Debian? I think what technical flaws there are are masked by other problems. We're actually spectacularly good at dealing with technical issues in comparison to most distributions. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]