64 bit HEADSUP: Restart of *everything* today
Corinna Vinschen
corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Mar 6 14:47:00 GMT 2013
On Mar 6 14:25, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Mar 6 07:08, Yaakov wrote:
> > On Wed, 6 Mar 2013 13:20:11 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Which leads to a question: When do we go entirely "distro"-style?
> > > It's nice to have a lot of packages to play and build more packages,
> > > but it's pretty obvious double (or triple) work.
> > >
> > > We don't have enough packages yet to make a 64 bit distro work with
> > > setup (mostely bash is missing), but I guess we can seriously consider
> > > that not too far in the future. A week? Two?
> >
> > Yeah, if not sooner. As I'm building everything with cygport, it's a
> > lot easier for me to upload a tree than these single ad-hoc packages.
> >
> > > And how do we start? Would it make sense to create a new subdir
> > > 64bit/release already today and fill it step by step with packages
> > > which can be considered finished and all dependencies resolved?
> > > The 64bit/release dir could then simply be moved to it's ultimate
> > > position as soon as we go public.
> >
> > Sounds good to me.
>
> Ok, I created that 64bit/release dir, which is just a bit lonely right
> now. I also pulled my catgets packages again, since they were broken.
I re-uploaded the catgets packages and added them to the new, shiny,
very empty release subdir (yay!)
Corinna
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