On Thu, 14 Jul 2011, Rainer Orth wrote: > Richard, > > [Talking about an immediate removal of the netware target...] > > > "Jan Beulich" <jbeul...@novell.com> writes: > > > >>>>> Rainer Orth <r...@cebitec.uni-bielefeld.de> 07/13/11 4:34 PM >>> > >>>which variant would you prefer: obsoletion now and removal in 4.8 or > >>>immediate removal? > >> > >> Both are fine with me, so unless someone else objects immediate removal > >> would seem better given it had been pretty much unmaintained. > > > > Right: it would be a one-time offort to remove the support, but > > subsequent cleanups wouldn't have to deal with the effectively dead > > code. > > > > I had a quick look and it doesn't seem hard: apart from removing the > > netware-specific files in gcc and libgcc (and corresponding gcc/config.gcc > > and libgcc/config.host changes), there's only a small list (apart from > > netware-related target triplets in the testsuite): > > > > config/elf.m4 > > configure.ac > > contrib/config-list.mk > > gcc/config/i386/i386.c > > gcc/config/i386/i386.h > > gcc/doc/extend.texi > > libstdc++-v3/crossconfig.m4 > > > > configure.ac may have to stay if binutils/src wants to retain the > > report, but that's about it. > > > > Let's see what the release managers/global reviewers think. > > what's your take on this?
I'm fine with it if you install a deprecation patch on the 4.6 branch and mention that in the 4.6 changes.html. Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguent...@suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer
