Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-04 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Wouter Verhelst [2019-04-01 22:53]: > These two words were meant to be a reference to today's date. ... > I'm surprised that most candidates gave it real consideration. I'm sure > they were simply trying their best to remain polite in the face of > someone asking something stupid :-) Oh boy. I

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-02 Thread Paul Wise
On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 7:56 PM Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Gentoo, for instance, has been ported to Interix and macOS[1]. I note that there was at one time a Debian Interix port: https://lists.debian.org/debian-interix/ https://web.archive.org/web/20170629135305/http://debian-interix.net/ -- bye,

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2019/04/01 22:53, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > I'm surprised that most candidates gave it real consideration. I'm > sure they were simply trying their best to remain polite in the > face of someone asking something stupid :-) If you read my response

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
So, now that all candidates have answered... On Mon, Apr 01, 2019 at 01:55:37PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > Specifically today, These two words were meant to be a reference to today's date. > should we try to make Debian usable on any of the operating system kernels > that I quoted above? T

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Wouter On 2019/04/01 13:55, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > One thing that Debian has historically been good at, is to produce ports > for various architectures. However, we're not the most widely ported; > Gentoo, for instance, has been ported to Interix and macOS[1]. NetBSD > has a few ports that w

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 15359 March 1977, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Should we try to catch up with these other systems in terms of ports? Specifically today, should we try to make Debian usable on any of the operating system kernels that I quoted above? While it is nice to have many ports, "We have the most" is not th

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Wouter" == Wouter Verhelst writes: Wouter> Hi all, One thing that Debian has historically been good at, Wouter> is to produce ports for various architectures. However, Wouter> we're not the most widely ported; Gentoo, for instance, has Wouter> been ported to Interix and mac

Re: Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Wouter Verhelst [2019-04-01 13:55]: > One thing that Debian has historically been good at, is to produce ports > for various architectures. However, we're not the most widely ported; ... > macOS, HPUX, IRIX, AIX, QNX, and Solaris[2]. > > Should we try to catch up with these other systems in ter

Q to all candidates: should we have more ports?

2019-04-01 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Hi all, One thing that Debian has historically been good at, is to produce ports for various architectures. However, we're not the most widely ported; Gentoo, for instance, has been ported to Interix and macOS[1]. NetBSD has a few ports that we do not have, and its pkgsrc is available for a large