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Re: 64 bit HEADSUP: Restart of *everything* today
On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:20:11 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Which leads to a question: When do we go entirely "distro"-style?
> It's nice to have a lot of packages to play and build more packages,
> but it's pretty obvious double (or triple) work.
>
> We don't have enough packages yet to make a 64 bit distro work with
> setup (mostely bash is missing), but I guess we can seriously consider
> that not too far in the future. A week? Two?
Yeah, if not sooner. As I'm building everything with cygport, it's a
lot easier for me to upload a tree than these single ad-hoc packages.
> And how do we start? Would it make sense to create a new subdir
> 64bit/release already today and fill it step by step with packages
> which can be considered finished and all dependencies resolved?
> The 64bit/release dir could then simply be moved to it's ultimate
> position as soon as we go public.
Sounds good to me.
Yaakov