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Re: target removal...


On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 01:36, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > - Anyone can propose deprecations, by submitting a patch adding
> >   system-name globs to the lists in config.gcc and
> >   gcc-3.x/changes.html.
> > - Wait twenty-four hours for objections.  If there are none, check
> >   it in.
> 
> 24 hours seems a bit short, especially considering that the path to
> deprecation usually takes a few years. ;-)
> 
> Two weeks or so might be more appropriate. (Folks do go on holidays
> or get ill now and then.)
> 

Though, perhaps one of the best things to do would be to put them in the
obsolete section of config.gcc. That way people that don't read the
list, but use cvs will notice it and any complaints will be seen then.

-eric

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