[M3devel] the beauty of a C backend..

[Tony Hosking]

These are observations, but I don't see how they reach any conclusion,  
nor whether the conclusion is desirable.  I'm not sure exactly what  
you are trying to say.

On 10 Aug 2009, at 17:10, Jay K wrote:

> The beauty of a C backend..
> We'd just release source and be done.
> No platform build matrix -- only what we'd test.
> Leave all the less used architectures to their users.
> Leave all the packaging to the distribution packaging people.
> Maybe use autoconf for some of the platform specific stuff, though  
> we have very little anyway.
>
>
> You know, you don't see binary packages for many
> projects provided by their owners, and then not for many  
> architectures.
> You know, we'd just do like NT/x86, Linux/x86, maybe Linux/amd64,  
> and that'd be it.
> Anyone running anything else is an advanced or unusual user.
> (the x86 packages would generally work on the popular AMD64  
> machines, anyone wanting
> native could build from source)
>
>  - Jay

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