Re: Beyond GCC 3.0: Summing Up

["Joseph S. Myers" <jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk>]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Stan Shebs wrote:

> GDB already has a two-stage process for this, where the first stage
> is to research the status of the target, and if it appears moribund,
> declare its support obsolete, comment out all the code, and make a
> release with the obsolete code still present.  Then if nobody speaks
> to save it, delete it from the next release.  So far none of the
> obsoleted targets has had to be unexpectedly resurrected.

Given the use of CVS, what is the advantage of this process over simply
announcing on gcc-announce the targets it is proposed to remove and seeing
if anyone objects, as in
<URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-announce/2000/msg00002.html>?

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk