Re: Please test compile the staging area for the beta

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

ariel arcavia com writes:

> On 16 Feb 2001 16:13:22 -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>  
> > Perhaps for future GNOME releases, the set of reference platforms may
> > be extended (one notable omission is LinuxPPC).
>
> It seems to me completely unfair to leave Linux PPC out on the list of
> supported platforms. It seems that GNOME is only a x86 thingie...
> 

We can't list every platform, or we will never ship. I think there are
many other platforms that maybe deserve to be on the list. We did have
one non-x86 platform on the list, Solaris/SPARC. We tried very hard to
compromise between including a variety of popular platforms, and not
making the list so big that hitting the criteria would be infeasible.

Perhaps this list will grow over time. The best way to get one's
favorite platform added to the list of reference platforms is to
volunteer to test on it and fix problems.

 - Maciej