[BlueOnyx:00758] Re: installer tarball

[Michael Stauber]

Hi Franklin,

> How about an installer for the 64 bit CentOS5 OS ???

No, at the moment there is no 64 bit version of BlueOnyx. I doubt that some 
parts of it even compile under a 64bit OS, so it would need a ton of tweaking, 
fixing and adjusting. Any volunteers stepping up for that?

Also: We'd need more hardware for compiling and testing the 64bit branch of 
the code. 

In any case: Having a 64bit branch of the code would quadruple the development 
workload, as we can't just check in a fix, compile it and roll out 32bit and 
64bit versions of the new RPMs. No, each update would have to be manually 
built twice - once for for each architecture - and would need to be tested 
twice - once on each architecture - before it could be rolled out.

Even the ISO image building process would be a double effort, as there would 
have to be two separately maintained CDs.

Now even if we we had a 32bit and a 64bit branch of BlueOnyx: You'd suddenly 
find yourself without third party PKGs for the 64bit version, as those are 
only available as 32bit versions. 

All in all that 64bit stuff falls into the category "would be nice to have", 
but who's gonna do it, who really benefits from it and is it worth the 
hassles?

No, at this time I'd rather like to focuss the development on actual 
improvements that are immediately visible and from which every user of 
BlueOnyx benefits - right out of the box.

-- 
With best regards

Michael Stauber