Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C

From: David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:03:39 -0700
On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 09:30:17PM -0700, Colin Percival wrote:
> cvsup isn't the problem.  ezm3 is the problem.
> 
> This is one of the unusual cases where it's easier to port
> the program to a new language than it is to port the language
> to a new platform. :-)

It is?  Have you tried??

I can see this being an issue for AMD64, since GCC 3.2 didn't have good
support for AMD64 -- but GCC 3.2 supported all the rest of our platforms
just fine.

I truly believe it is simply that no one has been willing to even try to
port 'ezm3' to IA-64 and PowerPC.  Everyone demands JDP do the porting
vs. giving it try on their own [asking JDP for advice along the way].
 
-- 
-- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 05:03:42 UTC

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