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Re: AIX status
- To: dje at watson dot ibm dot com
- Subject: Re: AIX status
- From: Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 17:36:42 -0700
- Cc: libstdc++ at sources dot redhat dot com
- Organization: CodeSourcery, LLC
- References: <pedwards@disaster.jaj.com><200010152325.TAA28952@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>
>>>>> "David" == David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com> writes:
David> Choosing narrow, arbitrary, system-dependent cutoffs
David> for first-tier support is a slippery slope which likely
David> will bite the very people proposing it on the next round.
David> I find this system xenophobia very discouraging.
From my point of view, I feel that we have to pick some systems as
first-tier targets, and relegate some to second-tier status, simply
because we do not have enough resources to make all systems
first-tier. I think it's clear that some systems (say x86 GNU/Linux)
are first-tier, and some (say NCR MP-RAS) are not.
Then, we come to AIX specifically. To me, the driving force is that
AIX is used by a lot of people. Therefore, providing GNU tools there
is important to me -- it's a chance for us to make those tools
available to lots of people.
It would be nice if there were actually a project-wide definition of
first-tier platforms; then each individual maintainer/committee would
not have to decide this problem.
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Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
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