Re: one of the many reasons why removing non-free is a dumb idea
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 04:02:25PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote:
> Did you ever use Sourceforge? How difficult would it be for you to setup
> a Sourceforge-like project to distribute and maintain your driver? What
> would be the initial cost of setting it up, what would be the cost of
> maintaining it, compared to maintaining the package now?
>
> (One cannot start projects for non-free stuff on Sourceforge, of course,
> but somebody could setup a similar service for www.nonfree.org. Asking
> the Alioth admins how difficult that would be might be a good first step)
Sourceforge has a compile farm[1], and Debian has numerous machines DD's
can login too[2]. Not everybody has 11 different arches in their
basement... Without access to Debian-unstable boxes of all
architectures, one can only support the more common archs like ppc, i386
and sparc, because maintainers can't compile their own package on some
exotic architecture. And it will be _very_ difficult to make hardware
vendors donate hardware solely for non-free stuff.
Not to mention that setting up public shell-access is very tricky, once
one has shell access, one of the less important problems is already that
anyone can easily make that services useless for anybody else.
And what happens to be one of the advantages of Debian? Its multi-arch
support... Even for non-free.
--Jeroen
[1] http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=762&group_id=1
[2] http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
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Jeroen van Wolffelaar
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Jeroen@A-Eskwadraat.nl
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