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Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- To: dj at redhat dot com (DJ Delorie)
- Cc: jsm28 at cam dot ac dot uk, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, dj at redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:25:12 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: Remaining host configuration fragments
> > It generally goes "works" --> bitrotten (for several releases) -->
> > "missing" in practice. People can always volunteer to add back and
> > maintain support for a desupported host or target, getting the last
> > version of support files from CVS.
DJ Delorie writes:
> Bitrotting is a poor way to officially obsolete a host or target.
Unfortunately, it's hard to avoid, unless we mark the vast majority of
platforms deprecated because no one sent us a test result during
development.