Jim Gifford wrote: > Just a note about what is planned about the next release, and some > concerns that have been raised. The development team is asking for > community opinion. ... > Testers will be approved by the LFS Development team
I, for one, welcome the news that Ryan's cross-compilation method will become mainstream. Some thoughts though: 1) Some of us hate scripting builds - prefering to read the output as it comes rather than pour over logs. Even after many years of building LFS by hand, I still do so. So, this implies some means of reading the book while building - remote is not an option for me as I build on just one machine - and cut and paste if there are complex sed's to enter. 2) I hope that the method change doesn't delay the incorporation of new package releases. 3) I know there is a head of steam building for non-x86-32 architectures, but we should also remember that lots of people enjoy the use of old machines in the x86 series. Most of mine are sub-gigahertz pentiums. One thing I like about the method is that it caters well for this group. Of course if someone were kind enough to donate a non-x86 machine for my use, I might change my mind... Finally, a note about Ryan's scripts. They are, no doubt, extremely clever. This is the problem. I will not expend the energy to understand someone elses complex script. I will also not trust it to build my systems - because I don't understand it. I use LFS because the method is explained in a book. This, for me, it the everlasting appeal of the LFS books series. I can't yet find an explanation of Ryan's method, the wiki just presents it, and the scripts hide it in complexity that I'm not prepared to disect. So you can't get a draft svn out fast enough for me :-) And I'll test it, but on my terms. My distro my rules. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
