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Re: libiberty: purge MPW support
On Mon, Dec 10, 2001 at 02:16:13PM -0800, Stan Shebs wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >
> > This patch removes all support for MPW from libiberty.
>
> Whacking MPW bits has been on my todo list for awhile. Apple has
> recently reassigned Greg Branche, who the last person who was
> supporting MPW, so the pulse is almost gone. On the other hand,
> Alex Rosenberg has been working on reviving the MPW port recently
> (MPW still has a fan club unhappy that Apple is dropping it), and
> so I wanted to give the MPWers a last chance to sign up to keeping
> this port alive.
I can't tell if this is an approval or not. :-)
The concept behind the MPW Shell - integrated editor/command language,
very smalltalk - was nice and it might be interesting to forward-port
that to OSX; which can, of course, use the Unix-y pexecute().
I don't see any great value in keeping the classic MPW around though.
zw