Re: Status of Alpha Port?

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Friday 02 January 2009 15:57:13 Matt Turner wrote:
> What are the implications of it being moved to ports?

it isnt actively tested nor will it hold up a release

> Do we have to have an active maintainer in order for patches to be accepted?
>
> I know Alpha assembly but I don't think I know enough about glibc to
> be the maintainer, though I'd certainly like to see it actively
> maintained on Alpha.
>
> I'm trying to persuade HP to GPL their libots and libcpml so we can
> include bits in glibc, but I'm not sure this would be possible without
> an Alpha maintainer.

no idea about who is going to be merging, but it's certainly being maintained 
in at least Gentoo.  glibc-2.9 seems to work fine for us with a couple of 
patches that we've written.
-mike

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