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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Architecture-dependent spells
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 13:51:03 -0700

Hi all,

As I ran across yet another package that's architecture-dependent[0] today,
perhaps we should look into how to separate those out of the normal grimoires?
We should also decide how separated we want it.

Easy plan (I like this one the best):
Create extra grimoires for our non-x86 architectures: currently only ppc (but
we
also have a sparc app: silo) and move non-x86-specific packages into their
respective locales.

More correct plan (this one would make other architectures work better [i.e.
no
x86 specific apps to break on their machines]):
Create extra grimoires for all architecture-specific applications (including
x86) and move spells which only compile and/or are written specifically for
those applications to their respective grimoires.

Other ideas (some really bad ;)):
Create flags for which architectures a package does/does not work on.
Hard-code Sorcery for the corner cases (using x86 as the "standard" install)
Ignore this problem (nyet)
Others?

Thoughts?

-sandalle

[0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5830, along with silo and
perhaps
a few others (lilo?).

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