Re: When are we going to remove deprecated ports?

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Gerald Pfeifer wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>  
>
> > > > When are we going to remove ports deprecated in 3.4.0?  Anytime?  Or
> > > > shortly after 3.4.0 is released so people will see what will be
> > > > removed?
> > > >        
> > > In the past it has always been done shortly after 3.x.0.
> > >      
> > True -- but I see no reason to wait.  If the port has been deprecated in
> > 3.4.x, we can just remove it now.  That goes for other deprecated
> > things, like deprecated language extensions, too.
> >    
>
> I suppose the idea of only removing deprecated backends and extensions
> after the release of 3.x.0 was to give the community more chance to react
> (and, for example, a company or volunteer to step up as maintainer).
>
> On the other hand, everything is in CVS an can be reverted, it's just
> `cvs annotate` that will be lost in such a case.
>  
Yup.  I think we can just remove the deprecated stuff.  Language 
extensions are going, one way or the other, probably.  If someone wants 
to revive a back end, we can decide to do that, but it's easy enough to 
get it out of CVS.

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