On 03/05/12 09:01, Rainer Orth wrote:
This is where I need explicit approval and/or guidance:
* There are some fixincludes hacks that from their names seem to be
osf-specific, but are not restricted to alpha*-dec-osf*. Bruce,
what's the best way to handle those? Disable them e.g. with a mach
clause like unused-alpha*-dec-osf* and see if anything else breaks?
I think the right way is to require that all ports have a maintenance
person build the thing at least once a year for all supported platforms.
For such maintenance builds, I can trivially emit a list of hacks that
got triggered during the build. Any hacks that don't show up in the
list for a couple of years get marked as "obsolete" and trigger a build
warning. If nobody complains about the warning, then its gone.
Shouldn't take more than 3 or 4 years of disuse to get rid of the cruft. :)
How's that for an approach?
Cheers - Bruce
