Sorry, the URL for the wiki page was missing; here it is: [1] http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/wiki/UniversalDevelopment On Dec 14, 2007, at 2:02 PM, Markus Weissmann wrote:
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Granted we need more universal support in base, but we should coordinate things amongst ourselves, not duplicate effort, and not create different ways of doing the same thing.
The problem is, we do not know yet how to best build the non-trivial cases. The "merge" idea is only one piece for getting universal support for more universal-resistant ports; others are using emulators, different architecture build machines, etc.
If there are more people interested in working on this, we should definitely coordinate. I've started a wiki page [1] including a list of interested developers -- which is currently very short ;) (if this group is getting very large, we'll get a mailing list for it)
As soon as I find some spare time, I'll add the results of our GSoC research on how post-destroot merge works (and what is missing) and where more investigation is necessary (e.g. emulation)
-- Dipl. Inf. (FH) Markus W. Weissmann http://www.macports.org/ http://www.mweissmann.de/