Do I want subports?

[Ken Cunningham]

Working on the optimal way to do this emulator + GUI program.

The emulator itself is best built with i386, for the JIT. This requires
libSDL to be available in i386 (so presumably +universal). You can monkey
around with a no-JIT version, but you wouldn't want it, ultimately.

The rather tiny little GUI (that just edits a simple config file with text
lines) is compatible with gtk1 or gtk2 has no reason to be any special
architecture (x86-64 would be just fine, if you have the gtk tree built
that way).

I don't want to make people reinstall their whole gtk tree as universal for
no reason... on Snow Leopard (building from source) this takes half a day.
(OK, not quite -- but a long time).

Is this a role for subports, with the emulator forced to i386, but the gui
left to be whatever?

Ken
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