On Don, 2002-10-10 at 02:45, Petro wrote: > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 04:36:02PM -0400, christophe barbe wrote: > > Just want to point the obvious: They have a powerpc plugin that works > > perfectly under MacOS-X. So basically that's nearly a zero-effort for them > > to provide the community a linux/powerpc binary. > > Actually, it's even worse than that. > > I'm doubting there is much hardware specific crap in it, and they > support Linux-x86, so it IS a near-zero-effort (hell, all they'd > have to do is ask, and I'm sure someone would be willing to compile > it for them).
A simple compile doesn't deal with portability issues like endianness, char (un)signedness, ... Granted, they should have solved at least the first one for MacOS. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
