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Re: 64 bit HEADSUP: Restart of *everything* today


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.


Corinna

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