On 06-09-17 10:52 -0500, Carlo Segre wrote:
The question is this. Is fityk really a package that is useful for the
arm architecture? Only those who use arm can tell me this. If it isn't
maybe I should exclude arm from the architecture list or the package can
be marked "not-for-us". I don't even what to try porting it myself using
leisner as that machine has only 64M or RAM and I am sure that it will be
painful if even possible.
A quick read of the decription suggests that a vanishingly small part
of the populace would want to run this package on arm. I can think of
any sensible reason to want to do diffraction pattern analysis on an
arm box, although in theory someone might need some nonlinear
curve-fitting software.
If it uses a lot of floating point (which seems likely) then it really
would be bonkers to run it on arm. I'd be perfectly happy to have it
marked 'not-for-us'.
There is a whole class of software for doing various sorts of
numerical analysis that are not really appropriate for arm, but 'there
isn't any point' has not to date been considered a justification for
not including something in an architecture.
There would be some benefit from a discussion about defining a set of 'no
point on low-powered architectures' packages.