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[Andi Vajda]

On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Ted Leung wrote:
>
> 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.

+1

Andi..