PROPOSAL: Policy for obsoleting targets

[E. Weddington]

On 16 May 2003 at 12:33, Joel Sherrill wrote:

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> I decided to see how many targets which I thought had users would get
> auto-deprecated by this policy.  Here is a quick take of targets 
> which I did a search for in gcc-testresults.  <sarcasm on> I am pretty
> sure 
> that some of these have active users <sarcasm off>:
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>   avr*-*-*     - No reports

I can attest that there have been over 9,000 downloads of the Windows hosted 
AVR cross alone. Then add in known AVR users on Linux and FreeBSD. The AVR 
target has an extremely active community.
 
> I think this policy is probably OK for self-hosted environments but
> raises the bar too high for embedded targets.  I fairly regularly 
> report that at least the *-rtems and many of the embedded targets
> without
> simulators build.  I know what you are trying to achieve but this 
> policy is too rough for embedded targets.

I would certainly agree.

Eric Weddington