[IAEP] PowerPC SoaS

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 21:23, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 09:06:07PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
>>By the way he says the Fedora PPC version should be able to boot
>>PowerPC (pre-Intel) Macs, and doesn't see why Sugar couldn't run on
>>top of that. Am I missing something?
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> Don't know if you are missing it or not, but a PowerPC SoaS (i.e. Linux
> kernel + GNU/BSD/whatever userspace + X11 + Python + Sucrose, all
> compiled for PowerPC) will happily "update" its activities to newer
> Intel-compiled ones that will then fail.  Pure-Python Activities will
> work, but ones containing embedded libraries will fail.
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> Apart from that, I can't think of other obstacles at the moment.

Agreed. I think Aleksey has done some work for bundling binaries for
several architectures in a single bundle. I guess we could generalize
this work further for the activities that need it.

Regards,

Tomeu

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