Do I want subports?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 8 September 2016 at 19:33, Ken Cunningham wrote:
> 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?

In the case you describe I would indeed go for subports. If
architecture of the GUI is unrelated to the architecture of the
emulator, it would be an overkill to require building everything as
universal.

Mojca