Re: Unofficial Squeeze NetInst CDs: call for testers

[Brian Morris <cymraegish@gmail.com>]

Need a place to upload/download, I think I know how to build optimized packages but I don't know how to built a debian style repository, that is something people could add to /etc/apt/sources.list.

If you wanted to try building web browser that would be cool.  I am planning to do some stuff for myself anyway but I am sort of waiting for release in order to have some more stability - web browsers do require updates though fairly frequently.  Determining which libraries and dependencies have significant effect would be nice. Having some utilities that can trace where is the code spending a lot of time, gets into details too heavily for me unless it can be matched to some specific package.

there is also the freely available libfreevec which provides altivec based libc. Even though it is no longer maintained I still am using it with current testing release and it is working. there was also a library for c++ but it required transforming the code to substitute library calls, the libfreevec works transparently by contrast. 

compiler optimized was mostly what I was talking about these days, it is much better than it used to be and why not take advantage of the hard work that has been put into that ?

On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Gary Driggs <gdriggs@gmail.com> wrote:

On Dec 18, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Brian Morris wrote:

> My main gripe as I have said before here is that there are no G4-Altivec optimized binary packages Debian based to be found anywhere.

I was working on a G5 optimized 64 bit binary of GNU Icecat (their own take on Iceweasel) but encountered some problems that are Mozilla project specific.

But if there are other apps you'd like to see optimized I'd be glad to pitch in. I think the last time this subject came up it was frowned upon for some reason beyond my recollection.

It's been 10 years or more since I've built packages of any kind but those were Sys V style Solaris packages so anything else should be a walk in the park by comparison.

Feel free to write me off list or on depending on whether you think others here would like to be involved.

Does anyone know if the package popularity contest stats also track more machine specific data behind the scenes? The reason I ask is that despite there being a fair number of IBM users on the list I suspect that the majority of Debian PPC users have Apple hardware.

-Gary

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