[haiku-development] Re: Alpha 3 : better late than never
- From: Matt Madia <mattmadia@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 16:24:22 +0000
On 2011 5 29 12:14, "Jim Saxton" <black.belt.jimmy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Yes, this is the main problem. It's easy to solve : forget about the gcc4
and >gcc4hybrid versions of Haiku, and use the officially supported one
only.
> >No need for symlinks all over the place.
>
> By hosting gcc4 hybrid images, Haiku has efectively made two
> distrobutions. It is too late now, the cat is out of the bag. There
> are the gcc2 hybrid distrobution and the gcc4 hybrid distrobution.
> Haiku will be juged by the usefullness of both distrobutions. The
> Haiku devs can ignore one and be juged poorly, or support both and
> have a better image.
>
The non-gcc2hybrid versions are only available as nightly images.
www.haiku-files.org explicitly states that official releases, upto and
including R1 will be gcc2hybrid, that the other veraions are onky for
testing, and that it is recommended to use a gcc2hybrid. Plain as day.
Anyone who packages software for a gcc4hybrid and fails to take the time to
make sure it works on the official release, (or at least a nightly image of
the official release style, gcc 2 hybrid) is doing a disservice to the
project.
--mmadia
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