| From: | Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia |
| Date: | 14 Sep 2000 at 15:40:42 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Absence of VP in distros, and strategy |
At 03:21 PM 9/14/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 08:35:37AM +0200, Juan Carlos Marcos Rodr�guez wrote:
>
> > From: Jim Peters <jim@aguazul.demon.co.uk>
> >
> > >> there should be some way for the OS to _enforce_ the presence
> > >> of .00 (VP) binaries in any installation archive. However I don�t
> > >> have any way of enforcing this at hand.
> >
> > > This is all nonsense. It's not an Ami program if it doesn't have
> > > VP binaries - it would be an Ami/x86 or Ami/PowerPC program
> >
> > Then... So what, for the customer? Almost every computer in sight uses
> a x86
> > processor. So this is viable. In fact, it's profitable. So it will happen.
> > The solution is centralised control of the distributions, something very
> > rare and alienating. Of course, I'm worrying too much. There's a ton of
> work
> > to do to even get near this point. Just about that, two questions:
>
>The solution is pretty simple: Don't include tools to create native
>binaries.
Elate needs to be able to dynamically translate VP to native,
which means that the translators have to be there. There is
little you can do to prevent users from using them as well.
Regards,
G.
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