On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:43:17PM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:30:35PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > +Recognizing the fact that ports depend on volunteer labor, the minimum > > +requirements for the 1.0 launch of Parrot are portability to major > > +versions of Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, and Windows released within 2 years > > +prior to the 1.0 release. As we approach the 1.0 release we will > > +actively seek porters for as many other platforms as possible. > > There is the potential for satisfying those requirements entirely with x86 > ILP32 systems, potentially using only 2 different compilers, which wouldn't > be fab for ensuring portability :-( > > I would think that Sparc Solaris, building 64 bit, would be the best single > target to aim for to increase portability spread. >
Actually, I was thinking this could be accomplished with gcc only on all of these environments. That, however, would be very bad. Steve Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
