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What distribution format or formats should we aim for?<br><br><br>One thing to consider, in our various preferences for a source/assembly distribution,<br>is that there is the large gcc backend.<br><br><br>How many people, even if they build stuff from source, build gcc?<br>How many of those attempts are deemed onerously slow? Or fail and onerous to debug? etc.<br>And people give up?<br>Consider that OpenBSD discourages its users from building from source.<br>Instead they provide binary packages for "everything".<br><br><br>Yes yes a C-generating backend would fix that and merely require the user have gcc or such.<br>Is the middle step worthwhile?<br><br><br>Is a gcc plugin viable at this point?<br>I'm not too interested in that really.<br><br><br>Maybe the answer is to "get into" the distributions, into the package systems.<br>Put rebuild work on the distributions?<br>They do handle gcc already, somehow, e.g. via a cross into a new/empty file system, presumably.<br>Can anyone else research that?<br><br><br>Thank you,<br> - Jay<br> </div></body>
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