Am 13.04.2012 01:57, schrieb Peter Maydell: > So, the darwin-user/ subdirectory is officially Orphan, and looking > at the git history the last commit to it which wasn't either "apply > a global change", "fix cppcheck/spelling error/similar autodetected > nit" or "duplicate a linux-user fix into darwin-user and bsd-user" > was way back in 2009, perhaps even earlier. > > If in three years nobody's cared enough about it to manage to get > a single darwin-user specific change into the tree, my suggestion > would be that it is in practice dead and we should make that > official by deleting it. Then we can stop wasting effort on applying > (untested!) global changes to these files. > > Does anybody want to argue against that idea? > > (This came up on IRC a month or so ago, and there seemed to be > a consensus that the use case it was originally intended for > (x86 darwin binaries on ppc or vice versa? I forget) was now > no longer interesting to anybody. I don't have a strong opinion > personally but I thought I'd bring the idea up formally here.)
I have an RFC series coming up that cleans up MAINTAINERS and does this along the way. I was the one to bring this up on IRC and I had been previously in favor of keeping darwin-user with Apple's drop of Rosetta (ppc-on-x86) in mind. Mac OS X Lion came, dropped Rosetta and no one sent any patch, so I am now in favor of dropping it because I can't test the CPU changes I'm doing. Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg
