Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations

[Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek@gentoo.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark
> > Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch team. The
> > probability to find arch specific issues in something like Java is not
> > so high so I think arrangements like this are acceptable when the arch
> > teams have problems keeping up.
> >
>
> I think the same should be extended to other languages such as Perl
> and Python (unless they have portions which are C/C++)
>
>
You can't really, although Perl has a vm of sorts,  the per-arch differences
that occur as a side effect of endianness, different floating point/integer
math ( 32bit vs 64bit ) , and all those differences impact code.

and XS modules of course, they're prone to everything C is prone to.

-- 
Kent

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for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"

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