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Posted by barracuda156 on 2024-04-30.
I have raised this issue with Darktable upstream earlier, and there is no much enthusiasm about this. Then I found this project.
Would it be possible to add support for BE and 32-bit platforms? All major BSD systems support `ppc` presently, it is also supporting in some Linux distributions and on legacy macOS which is still used.
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Aurélien Pierre — 2024-04-30
By “adding support”, you mean you are candidating to do it ?
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