Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained (end of July 2009)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

www.pld-linux.org news:

"13 July 2009 Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained

ppc and athlon architectures in PLD Th line will become officialy deprecated
at the end of July 2009 and moved out of official directory at PLD ftp server.
Users of athlon arch are asked to switch to i686. ppc fate is unknown (there
is a chance of keeping ppc alive in form of unofficial branch)."

Reasons:
- athlon arch provides almost no gain over i686
- lack of fast ppc server acting as builder (current one is slow and breaks
too often) and, what is more important, lack of developer power to handle ppc
arch

[Jakub Bogusz]

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
"13 July 2009 Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained
ppc and athlon architectures in PLD Th line will become officialy deprecated
at the end of July 2009 and moved out of official directory at PLD ftp server.
Users of athlon arch are asked to switch to i686. ppc fate is unknown (there
is a chance of keeping ppc alive in form of unofficial branch)."

So sb needs to update or shorten the summary on main page: "wide variety of
architectures" will mean one really supported then (3 models, 2 ABIs)

[Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]

Post by Arkadiusz Miskiewicz
"13 July 2009 Th: ppc and athlon unmaintained
ppc and athlon architectures in PLD Th line will become officialy
deprecated at the end of July 2009 and moved out of official directory at
PLD ftp server. Users of athlon arch are asked to switch to i686. ppc fate
is unknown (there is a chance of keeping ppc alive in form of unofficial
branch)."

It happened.

ppc unfortunately is abandoned. sparky didn't step up to maintain it as a
separate branch.