Change of scope and target market for i386

Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rwmj on Friday September 29, 2017 @11:57AM (#15366409)

Fedora nearly dropped i686 earlier this year, and might do so soon. More specifically there was a proposal to stop building i686 kernels[1] which didn't go through but it did start a lot of discussion on the mailing list. Eventually it was decided to set up an x86 SIG for anyone interested in maintaining it[2][3]. It's yet to be seen how the SIG will work out.

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Stop_Building_i686_Ke...

[2] https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1737

[3] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/x86

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by leggomylibro on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:07PM (#15369214)

This is really only tangentially-related, but on the subject of removing architecture support, can I point out how annoying it is that Eclipse 4 does not target ARM architectures?

Look at this: http://archive.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops4/R-4.6-20...

Linux (x86/GTK+) Linux (x86_64/GTK+) Linux (PPC/GTK+) Linux (PPC64/GTK+) Linux (s390x/GTK+) Linux (s390/GTK+) Linux (PPC64LE/GTK+)

And yet no ARM...I'll bet more people use that than s390.

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by andrewf on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:40PM (#15369478)

IBM is almost certainly committing dollars or people to make that s390 (and PPC64) support happen.

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rwmj on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:20PM (#15369328)

Is Eclipse still written in Java? I wonder why architecture support has to be added at all.

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by rhencke on Friday September 29, 2017 @05:24PM (#15369358)

There very may well be other reasons, but a large one is that Eclipse is written using SWT, not AWT/Swing.

SWT is Java, and has a platform-independent API, but has platform-specific implementations. (SWT JARs are unique per OS/architecture)

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Re:Change of scope and target market for i386 by leggomylibro on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:53PM (#15369945)

I actually tried to build it from source.

Oh, god. What a monstrosity of a build system. And the documentation (or lack thereof)...here there be tygers.

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