Re: Removal of hppa support
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
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On 1/26/20 1:21 PM, William ML Leslie wrote: > The only thing Wingo wrote publicly about this seems to be: > >> I ported some of the existing GNU Lightning backends over to Lightening... I deleted the backends for Itanium, HPPA, Alpha, and SPARC; they have no Debian ports and there is no situation in which I can afford to do QA on them. [0] > > I haven't pushed to see what conditions would need to change to make > JIT support on these architectures desirable for the core developers. > Thoughts, Andy? Ludo? They have no Debian ports? > https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/2019-07-16/ > https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=guile-2.2&suite=sid It would have been nice if anyone from upstream had reached out to us. The lack of communication is rather disappointing. >> Debian (and NetBSD) still support hppa perfectly fine so the code is actually >> being compiled, used and test-run. And guile has been building fine on Debian/hppa. >> >> Access to hppa machines for testing and bug fixing is also available through Debian. >> >>> As an ia64 user, i'm a bit sad that we lost jit too - but i don't run any >>> performance-sensitive guile jobs on that system. >> >> Are you using Debian's ia64 port? We recently resurrected it ;). >> > > Yes I am - I saw that. Thank you for all your hard work on it! You're welcome. We're always looking for more contributors. > I was recently trying to figure out the issue with the vim-tiny tests > and I broke my ssh access: I failed to realise why setting up a chroot > was so important when you only have access to Sid. It is quite a bit > of work to get iLO access in my office so I've been putting it off > until I have a couple of days clear to look into it, and I've been > working on replacing the ancient tech needed to speak to early iLO > cards (a java6 browser plugin and old SSL with no hostname > verification). Yeah. The vim testsuite issue affects multiple architectures. > It's not my first debian-ports fun either - I ran a hurd-i386 box for > over a decade without issue. Nice. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913