Policy proposal - CPP_PREDEFINES

[Zack Weinberg]

On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 10:59:14PM +0100, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > As an example, the (relatively new) ia64 ports define 'hpux', 'unix',
> > 'ia64', and 'linux' depending which port they are.  We may be stuck
> > with these now, but let's not continue to include them in brand-new
> > ports.
> 
> Can't we define these as regressions from 2.95, and remove all such
> symbols from all ports added since 2.95?

It'd be nice, but I'm not about to do it unilaterally.

zw