> When there was an architecture change for the PowerPC, many installations only required a regeneration of the installed software.
Unfortunately it wasn't quite that clean in practice. Regen required TIMI to have access to the compilation templates for each program. These were intermediate compilation stages ( bytecode, I suppose ) that it could then translate to the new machine architecture.
However, these templates were often missing, deleted or out-of-sync. So we did an awful lot of recompiling from source, when we could find it...
Unfortunately it wasn't quite that clean in practice. Regen required TIMI to have access to the compilation templates for each program. These were intermediate compilation stages ( bytecode, I suppose ) that it could then translate to the new machine architecture.
However, these templates were often missing, deleted or out-of-sync. So we did an awful lot of recompiling from source, when we could find it...