[haiku-development] Re: [haiku] Re: Future releases? Recommend nightlies? gcc2?

  • From: kallisti5 <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:21:00 -0600

On 2016-12-04 16:18, Axel Dörfler wrote:

Am 02.12.2016 um 22:22 schrieb Julian Harnath:
On 02.12.2016 17:48, Axel Dörfler wrote:
Also, I would like to examine our options to make our packages more ABI
agnostic so that you can use the same package no matter if you're using
gcc2h or gcc5h. That would make us a lot more flexible with regards to
that stuff.
This is something I've been thinking about as well a while ago. If we
had some kind of ABI-agnostic intermediate layer, it would not only
solve the gcc2/5 problem, it would also allow binding to Haiku APIs from
languages other than C++ altogether. [...]

Actually, while that would be cool, I was reaching for a far more
closer goal: having a packaging scheme that allows the packages to be
identical for gcc2h, and gcc5h; ie. there wouldn't be a primary and
secondary architecture anymore, but only two equal different ones.
I may have worded that poorly, though :-)

This would be ideal (and i'm under the opinion it should have been
originally designed as such), but I don't think we have anyone to actually
work on it at the moment.  Our PM is *extremely* complex in spots
with lots of surface area for regressions. (all learned from just
trying to remove the url from repos)

I'm afraid if we decide to "rework all of our package management" now
the project will never see a release.

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