[Sugar-devel] The ARM is near

[Benjamin M. Schwartz]

David Farning wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Benjamin M.
> Schwartz<bmschwar at fas.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> 1. Many Activities contain Fedora 9 x86-32 binary code, and just won't run
>> on other platforms.  We need to reach a consensus on a multiplatform
>> standard for Activities, and then implement it.  The options for such a
>> standard are obvious enough.  The hard part is to choose the right one,
>> implement it, and make it stick.
> 
> Are you up for championing this?  Abstracting out architecture
> dependant code is painful yet very necessary process.

I would be happy to push this, and provide technical assistance, but all
the computers I own are x86-32.  Someone with multiplatform experience
would be a better choice ... especially someone who can provide motivation
to self and others by saying "this doesn't work on my computer".

--Ben

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