Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:11:27 -0600 | From | Chris Adams <> | Subject | Re: FatELF patches... |
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Once upon a time, Ryan C. Gordon <icculus@icculus.org> said: >I wouldn't imagine this is the target audience for FatELF. For embedded >devices, just use the same ELF files you've always used.
What _is_ the target audience?
As I see it, there are three main groups of Linux consumers:
- embedded: No interest in this; adds significant bloat, generally embedded systems don't allow random binaries anyway
- enterprise distributions (e.g. Red Hat, SuSE): They have specific supported architectures, with partner programs to support those archs. If something is supported, they can support all archs with arch-specific binaries.
- community distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian): This would greatly increase build infrastructure complexity, mirror disk space, and download bandwidth, and (from a user perspective) slow down update downloads significantly.
If you don't have buy-in from at least a large majority of one of these segments, this is a big waste. If none of the above support it, it will not be used by any binary-only software distributors.
Is any major distribution (enterprise or community) going to use this? If not, kill it now.
-- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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