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Re: What is glibc-ports?
On 04/17/2012 04:28 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
On 17/04/12 23:53, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Andreas Jaeger<aj@suse.com> wrote:
If we merge them, IMO we should have first a discussion what
architectures/triplets are release critical and which ones are not - and
how to define that.
That's an excellent point! I absolutely agree.
Would a reasonable approach be to use the gcc primary and secondary
target list as an initial guideline? Their approach of obsoleting
unmaintained posts in one release then dropping in the next also seems
appropriate.
I would first look at the conditions they have for becoming a
primary/secondary target, from:
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/criteria.html
"Primary platforms are popular systems, both in the sense that there are
many such systems in existence and in the sense that GCC is used
frequently on those systems. Secondary platforms are also popular
systems, but are either somewhat less popular than the primary systems,
or are considered duplicative from a testing perspective. All platforms
that are neither primary nor secondary are tertiary platforms."
That is rather vague. Do you have a better reference?
I consider active maintainership also a criterium - which would be a
question for x86/x86-64 ;)
Andreas
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