<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On domenica 22 febbraio 2009 23:52:59 Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:19:24AM EST, Fale wrote: > > I have proposed with this ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/332958 > > ) bug to consider to support more platforms in the PPAs. > > This was my proposal: > > --------- > > I think it is very important for making *ubuntu grow, support more > > platforms in PPAs. > > I think the main platforms that have to be supported are: > > * amd64 (already present) > > * i386 (already present) > > * lpia (already present) > > * arme > > * hppa > > * ia64 > > * powerpc > > * sparc > > * arm > > This would make a lot of software available for these platforms. > > The ARM company have announced that they want to put Jaunty on their ARM > > processors... > > PPA buildds are run in a virtual environment, in this case xen. The other > architectures are not yet supported for PPAs because there is little or no > xen support available for them. From my knowledge of these architectures, I > think ia64 and powerpc are *probably* the closest to having xen support, > but I think this is only with specific hardware, hardware that Canonical is > not likely to invest in, since ia64, hppa, powerpc, and sparc are no longer > officially supported by Canonical for Ubuntu. > > Luke That true, in fact I have even proposed a "distributed" soyuz system that would make possible to support every platform that is used by at least 2 users. -- Fabio A Locati Home: Segrate, Milan, Italy (GMT +1) Phone: +39-328-3799681 MSN/Jabber/E-Mail: fabiolocati@gmail.com PGP Key: 9EF6 3C79 F6DF 76CD 770A 43A1 DCCB 415C 9656 3334 Envolved in: KDE, OpenStreetMap, Ubuntu, Wikimedia</body></html>