Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:03:39 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C Message-ID: <20040707070339.GD38356@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <6.1.0.6.1.20040706212904.03d4fe00@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <20040707031735.GA3540@frontfree.net> <20040707041220.GA35497@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <6.1.0.6.1.20040706212904.03d4fe00@popserver.sfu.ca>
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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@FreeBSD.org)
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