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Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2009 05:00:12 +1300
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Improve policy of stabilizations
From: 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 R=E4ty <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 difference=
s
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.
--=20
Kent
perl -e "print substr( \"edrgmaM SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 )
for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 3:18 AM, Nirbheek=
Chauhan <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:nirbheek@gentoo.org">nirbh=
eek@gentoo.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" s=
tyle=3D"margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204=
); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class=3D"im">On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:42 AM, Petteri R=E4ty <<a hre=
f=3D"mailto:betelgeuse@gentoo.org">betelgeuse@gentoo.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> In the past when smaller arches were not that active we used to mark<b=
r>
> Java packages stable after testing by at least one arch team. The<br>
> probability to find arch specific issues in something like Java is not=
<br>
> so high so I think arrangements like this are acceptable when the arch=
<br>
> teams have problems keeping up.<br>
><br>
<br>
</div>I think the same should be extended to other languages such as Perl<b=
r>
and Python (unless they have portions which are C/C++)<br>
<font color=3D"#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote><div>=A0</div><div>You can't really, although Perl =
has a vm of sorts,=A0 the per-arch differences that occur as a side effect =
of endianness, different floating point/integer math ( 32bit vs 64bit ) , a=
nd all those differences impact code.<br>
<br>and XS modules of course, they're prone to everything C is prone to=
.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Kent <br><br>perl -e =A0"print substr( \&q=
uot;edrgmaM =A0SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1=
,6,5,4,3,2 );"<br>
<br><a href=3D"http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz">http://kent-fredric.fox.gee=
k.nz</a><br>
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