Re: patch/proposal: obsolete configurations in 3.1

[Paul Koning <pkoning@equallogic.com>]

Excerpt of message (sent 18 April 2002) by Kai Henningsen:
> On 15 Apr 2002 at 10:05, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > I would like to avoid getting into a controversial policy debate two
> > weeks before 3.1 is released.  Therefore, I think that in 3.1 we
> > should deprecate only those targets that have no constituents at all.
> > For 3.2 we can talk about doing a broader sweep.
> 
> For 3.2, how about a (published enough in advance, of course) policy 
> that everything goes for which there isn't either a "successful 
> built" report or submitted testresults for the last N releases (or 
> possibly N months)?

Interesting notion.  Does that depend on the existence of a simulator
for the target?  (is there an MMIX simulator??)

> For a later version, that could then be strengthened to at least a 
> successful bootstrap.

That doesn't work for embedded targets, which can't be bootstrapped,
they can only be crosscompilers.
 
	paul