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On Monday 16 April 2012 13:37:48 Carlos O'Donell wrote: > Do we need to do something to correct the perception of our users? not to be pedantic, but i don't think "correct" is quite the right word. "update" might be better since that's what we're doing here. after all, pretty much every release since ports/ was created has shown the main tree is tested + released "on time" while the ports/ dir significantly lagged. > Note that it is more than perception, it is confusion. Why is ARM in > glibc-ports given that it's used in many devices, or MIPS which is > supported by Mentor Graphics through work that Joseph Myers does? i think the answer is obvious given the history of where the sep ports/ tree came from in the first place ;) > * If a port isn't maintained we should remove it from the tree. You > can use source control to resurrect it. in general, i agree > * glibc v.s. glibc-ports is an artificial distinction that we should kill. would be nice > * Move glibc-ports back into glibc under ports/ so I can stop dealing > with two repos. i like this too, except i'm not sure if there's a way to do it without losing history :( > * Keep ports/ the way it is because the add-ons mechanism is very > useful for future ports and libraries from 3rd parties. i'm not sure people would be happy with adding arbitrary 3rd party addons to the main glibc repo ... > * Some day in the future we move all machines into ports/ leaving > generic code outside of ports. If ports is good enough for ARM it's > good enough for everything else, and using ports/ day-to-day will > ensure it doesn't bit-rot. sounds reasonable -mike
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