[haiku-development] Re: A modest (FatELF) proposal

  • From: Landon Fuller <landonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:44:04 -0500

On Nov 19, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Ingo Weinhold wrote:

> To sum it up, the arguments that stick IMO:
> 
> pros:
> 
> * A developer only has to distribute a single package instead of one per 
> architecture.
> 
> * A user doesn't have to pick the package for their architecture.
> 
> cons:
> 
> * Size.
> 
> * Probably package management unfriendly.
> 
> CU, Ingo

Fair enough. I agree that there's some wiggle room on the package manager 
question.

> PS: What I'd really like to see is support for LLVM bytecode binaries. Why 
> fat when it can be portable?

Me too, but one of these things I'm capable of doing in a reasonable amount of 
time (end of Thanksgiving weekend, if things keep going smoothly?). The other, 
not so much :)

-landonf

Other related posts: