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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:31:55AM +0200, Benoit PAPILLAULT wrote:
> Seth Alan Woolley a écrit :
> >Multilib support would be needed.  Patches have been made and proposed 
> >by benoit.  Unless the sorcery team has some copious free time to test 
> >them and the current team leaders feel that we have the resources to 
> >support a multilib system (which they don't think), they won't be going 
> >into main sorcery any time soon.  There's a proj2 branch for sorcery for 
> >benoit to work on it though since he pretty much won't listen to the 
> >current team leaders' priorities to work on stabilizing pure 
> >architectures first.
> >
> >There's already been stated opposition to multilib implementation as too 
> >much of a burden for all the gurus to manage.  If you feel differently, 
> >this is the discussion list and anybody is free to express themselves. :)
> >
> >Personally, what I did to convert was to build/install to a chroot for 
> >64-bit libraries.  That seems to work well for me.  If you have enough 
> >space for 32-bit libraries and binaries, you have enough room for a 
> >chroot with the same files on your system.  Alternatively, following 
> >Sergey's instructions and using the current test iso works, but you have 
> >to follow Sergey's advice for it to work flawlessly. :)
> >
> >Seth
> 
> Right. proj2 will be my own sorcery version with multilib support (and 
> few other minor features). In order to have my work available to anyone 
> who want to test it, I put the patches in bugzilla yesterday and will 
> try to apply them on proj2 when i got some time.
> 
> I'm not arguing that multilib should go into stable sorcery.
> I'm not arguing that multilib is of any high priority.
> I'm arguing that I want to make it available to anyone for testing.
> 
> Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru

Yes, we'll provide you the ability to do that, but you might get some 
opposition if people expect gurus to fix problems as a result of using 
your code (either in bugs in proj2 or spell bugs interacting with 
proj2).  You might want to put up a warning on your branch that warns 
people on failure that it's an unsupported branch ... or you could 
redirect them to #sourcemage-proj2 in the chat room and you can help 
them out yourself :).  If a lot of people are doing it and it looks to 
be stable and good, we'll probably then integrate it.

Seth

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