Sorry, I didn't mean to come off crass and dismissive, I've just come to the conclusion that those who write the code are the ones who make the decisions and the back and forth about which platform we ought to port to is at best unproductive.
Ultimately what will happen to break the dam, so to speak, regardless of any of the discussion here, is someone'll hole up in their apartment for a week, and come out with a port as functional as the ODW one but for a more available platform, and everyone else will probably normalize on that On 5-Jun-08, at 4:08 PM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > (de-HTMLified manually due to what Jive did to it; but not > reformatted to fill the gaps, sorry, too lazy...) > >> JFDI. > Ok, thanks for making me google for that one... > >> I know I for one am >> sick of this silly "what should we port to" back and >> forth. Here's what we should do: >> 1) Find a machine, as an >> autonomous individual >> 2) use it to port. If >> people have a better idea, let them buy and ship you >> the machine, but if they're not writing code to have >> it work there, they're at the mercy of the people >> that are. > > Note that I was merely pointing out a list with more possibilities > that _might_ be of interest to _someone_ that I hadn't seen discussed, > not suggesting any particular one. But of course who (if anyone) is > interested, is not under my control; nor was it clear to me that I > should > have anticipated a response like yours. Now, it is, of course. You > won > that round. > > If you're suggesting that everyone that wants to work on the code > should > just pick their own solution and see it through, that's a > possibility too, > but until there's enough more progress made, it strikes me that such a > diffuse effort would be at least as inefficient as all the talk, > particularly > since the number of people that could handle _that_ challenge would be > even smaller than the number that could participate if a readily > available > common platform were being used. Of course, once the first port was > fully functional and reasonably clean&modular wrt to the platform- > specific code, > it might well be wonderful to have people taking it to a bunch of > additional > PowerPC based platforms. IMO, anyway; no doubt others have their own. > > I guess opinions really are like, well, you know. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > powerpc-discuss mailing list > powerpc-discuss at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20080605/304db060/attachment.html>
