Two reasons:
1. I really want that firebird is no longer of those 10% of debian
packages that are not ported to all architectures.
2. I’ve read about the CONNECT! initiative and I think making firebird
available on more architectures would help spread the word.
Are there any objections against this?
If not, here’s the list of all Debian architectures.
Already ported:
i386
amd64
mipsel
sparc
powerpc
kfreebsd-i386[1]
kfreebsd-amd64
Need to be ported[2]:
alpha
arm
hppa
ia64
m68k
mips
s390 = IBM/S390
The porting won’t be very quick, since it depends of my free time and I
may abandon it in the middle as well. Anyway, I want to give it a try.
When I’m ready, I’ll post here a patch for HEAD.
If somebody needs a particular port, please raise your hand. I prefer to
start from the more popular ports.
Thanks,
dam
[1] http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/
[2] http://www.debian.org/ports/
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Damyan Ivanov Modular Software Systems
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