Am 21.02.2013 07:16, schrieb Saulius Krasuckas: > * On Wed, 20 Feb 2013, André Hentschel wrote: > >> this patch series removes the broken SPARC support. >> Reasons: >> * It's broken, i wasted enough time already trying to fix that > > It's sad to hear. Can you be more verbose on brokenness, please? > Eg. namely what Sparc platform were you using for development?
Not sure anymore, Austin English was so kind to provide a machine with ssh access for me. >> * Nobody cares - I sent an e-mail to everyone ever related to >> Wine/SPARC based on addresses from our mailing lists - no answer in a >> week (and cw also has no customers for it) > > You didn't catch this then: > http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/2004-October/030355.html > I care :) Really? :) I mean this was 2004, and it doesn't look like you took action on this. Did you read e.g. http://wiki.winehq.org/SPARC or http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24142 in the meantime? Oh and you asked about learning SPARC assembler... It's quite easy to learn and a clever architecture, but anyway: >> * If someone _would_ care the right thing to do would be a clean SPARC >> 64-bit port > > So, the old port was 32-bit or mixed or what? Yes, the old port was 32-bit only. >> * It really can confuse people (more than a ARM/ARM64 port xD) > > You mean random readers about host platforms Wine runs on;)? OK, not the best point, i agree :) I think i meant to talk about Wine/SPARC confuses people, so don't mention it anywhere ;) >> * SPARC is dead on the Desktop > > :( > >> And last but not least: I had a bad experience with the Solaris >> community regarding Wine/SPARC > > Oh. Is there any related public messages on the net? It would > interesting to read and know those stories. Mhh, that was on IRC, looks like there are no logs... -- Best Regards, André Hentschel