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Re: Target deprecation, round four
- From: Nathanael Nerode <neroden at twcny dot rr dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:49:17 -0500
- Subject: Re: Target deprecation, round four
zack at codesourcery dot com said:
> Fairly small adjustments from the last set. If there are no further
> objections I'd like to patch this list into the 3.3 branch and begin
> deleting code from the mainline.
Richard Earnshaw said:
>Surely a release containing the deprecation announcement should be made
>*before* we start removing the code... As it stands you are proposing
>to
>delete the code from the mainline before most of the world is even
>aware
>of this.
I deprecated vax-vms for 3.3 and promptly deleted it from mainline. But
this is because vax-vms (a) wasn't working, (b) hadn't been for a
long time, and (c) had over 10,000 lines of code devoted to it. I would
agree that deletions of *working* targets be delayed until the
version with the deprecation has been released. But deletions of
*non-working* targets, I think, can take place as soon as possible.
--Nathanael