[haiku-development] Re: [RFC / Important] Removing extra architectures
- From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 10:40:54 +0100
On 19/02/2014 10:37, Ithamar R. Adema wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Oliver Tappe <zooey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> I'm not saying the following is a good compromise, but it is my POV:
>> With Ithamar, the person who has put most effort into the ARM port has
>> already stated that he's just fine with doing his work externally, and the
>> PPC port doesn't actually have a maintainer. As a result, I'm all for
>> moving everything but x86-based ports to github or any other external
>> playground.
>>
>
> +1, and additionally, I think the line for a "usable" port should be on
> wether or not it can start a piece of userland, even if it is just bash.
> This would indicate a pretty complete kernel and user land setup, while it
> being able to "bootstrap" pretty much only says the cross compiler can
> build and there are enough stubs to make it all link ;)
Again I'm fine with working in a branch, that's what I did with the Sam
port already, although merging several times back to master when it
seemed some parts were ready, and making sure other platforms kept working.
I just don't want to have to revert file deletion commits around.
François.
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