Adoption strategy

[Eric S. Raymond]

Gary E. Miller via devel <devel at ntpsec.org>:
> Yo Eric!
> 
> On Fri, 15 Sep 2017 13:40:21 -0400
> "Eric S. Raymond via devel" <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yet a third implication is that support for 32-bit platforms is not
> > very important either.  We're doing that mainly because (a) good code
> > hygiene and (b) ARM32 and similar hardware make nice microservers.
> 
> I pretty much agree with what you said, until here.
> 
> There are a LOT of RaspBerry Pi's out there, and even more ARM 32-bit
> IoT devices.  NTPsec currently supports that quickly growing market, and
> should continue to do so.
> 
> As long as they support plain vanilla C99 and POSIX, we should support
> them.

That was sort of supposed to be subsumed under "ARM32 and similar hardware
make nice microservers."  We're not actually in disagreement.
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