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Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:08:34 +0800
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Subject: Re: 3.4 Plan: For which platforms will we officially release binary
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From: "L'oiseau de mer" <oiseaumer@gmail.com>
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If it hasn't currently a volunteer in Solaris Intel, maybe Andrew Rist
and Mouette Yang (me) can do.
But Solaris Sparc.....  Mmm....  if anyone can provide Sparc Machine,
we can help this platform.

2012/1/5 J=FCrgen Schmidt <jogischmidt@googlemail.com>:
> On 1/4/12 7:09 PM, Rob Weir wrote:
>>
>> Last week I posted a note pointing to a draft 3.4 release plan on the
>> wiki:
>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/AOO+3.4+Release+Pla=
n
>>
>> A few of you have step up to volunteer for some tasks. =A0This is great.
>> =A0This is just a draft, so feel free to modify, add additional
>> high-level tasks, etc.
>>
>> Some of the items on the wiki are not tasks for individual volunteers,
>> but things we need to agree on before we can release. =A0For some of
>> these items, we should try to come to a consensus now, so we can
>> ensure that the plan accounts for everything we want to do.
>>
>> So one item from the wiki: =A0What platforms do we want to release 3.4
>> binary packages for?
>>
>> With 3.3.0 we had:
>>
>> Windows Intel MSI
>> Linux Intel RPM
>> Linux Intel DEB
>> Linux x86-64 RPM
>> Linux x86-64 DEB
>> Mac OS Intel DMG
>> Mac OS PPC DMG
>> Solaris Intel PKG
>> Solaris Sparc PKG
>>
>> Do we want to do the same with 3.4? =A0Add ports? =A0Remove ports? =A0We
>> obviously have active porting work around BSD and OS/2. =A0Is the intent
>> to have them be Apache releases? =A0Or to be released separately?
>
>
> ok it looks that we can provide
>
> Windows
> Linux 32/64 bit + RPM/DEB
> MacOS Intel DMG
>
> Solaris Intel is probably also possible, correct?
>
> Solaris Sparc? Do we have a machine and a volunteer who would do the buil=
d?
>
> Free BSD, OS/2 later
>
> From my pov i would say Windows, Linux, Mac are mandatory, Solaris would =
be
> good but no release stopper for me. If Solaris would come a little bit la=
ter
> would be also fine.
>
> Juergen
>
>
>
>>
>> Personally, I'd temper "what we want" with "what can we accomplish
>> well". =A0In other words, what platforms do we think we can cover, from
>> a dev and test perspective, so we can have a solid 3.4 release, one
>> were we can confidently ask the IPMC to approve a release, and be
>> proud to read the reviews? =A0 There might be one answer for AOO 3.4 and
>> an expanded answer for AOO 4.0,
>>
>> -Rob
>
>