petdance/scratch — Issue #377: [DEPRECATED] X-to-Y native pbcs
Author: petdance
Created: 2011-11-01 05:42:10+00:00
State: open
Labels: deprecation, Pri-normal, Sev-medium

In the past, Parrot has voiced supported reading of PBC files created on, and optimized for other platforms.
In practice this usually only worked for PBC files created on x86-linux boxes.

This support will be removed in favour of a PBC format specifically designed for network transport and portability. Every Parrot, regardless of platform, shall be able to create and read PBC files in this format. Native-optimized PBC will still exist, but will not be readable on other platforms.

Originally http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/ticket/1961