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[Ted Leung]

On Jun 6, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Andi Vajda wrote:

>
> On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Ted Leung wrote:
>
>> A few weeks ago, Intel Mac support was on the agenda for the  
>> Chandler engineering meeting.   Based on the knowledge of the  
>> people in that meeting, we believed that Intel Mac support was  
>> (many) months away.    Since Chandler now runs on Intel Macs, we  
>> were obviously mistaken.
>
> We were all mistaken. No amount of email coordination would have  
> made it any faster or better. What unblocked this issue was the  
> unexpected arrival of a set of patches developed by Sandro Tolaini  
> making gcj 4.0.2 functional on Intel Mac OS X. Until then, the word  
> on the gcj mailing list [1] had been that Intel Darwin support  
> wasn't going to be released until gcj 4.2.0 which is nowhere close  
> to being released, ie many months away.

Me having my facts wrong about the Intel Mac stuff doesn't detract  
from the point of the original message - it illustrates what happens  
when you lack public information.   I'm sure people are tired of me  
saying this stuff.  I'm tired of having to say it, too.   But it  
boils down to this:  If we are going to call ourselves an open source  
project, we have to act like it.

Ted