As I write this, our friendly CIA bot is busy informing the good citizens of #exherbo that the multilib branch of arbor has been merged into master. Owners of other repositories with a multilib branch are invited to do the same. This does not mean that multilib is considered "finished", or that the design is finalised. It does mean that anyone wanting to use and develop multilib no longer needs to worry about keeping the branch up to date every time they want to do real work, which should mean more users and developers, which should mean that fixes and improvements are made more quickly.
It also does not mean that all library packages are immediately required to support multilib, if only because people who don't use it can't be expected to get it right without being able to test it, but it does mean that people working on existing multilibified packages need to know enough about how it works to avoid breaking it. Therefore a guide is available at http://www.exherbo.org/docs/multibuild.html. This merge should not cause any significant changes for people not currently using multilib, or for people already using it other than the need to switch branches. However it is always possible that there are bugs. If you find any, as usual, fix them yourself if you can, otherwise ask in #exherbo and someone will help and/or point and laugh. Finally, thanks to everyone who's worked on multilib so far, and to everyone who will take this opportunity to start working on it and make it even better. _______________________________________________ Exherbo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.exherbo.org/mailman/listinfo/exherbo-dev
