From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20714 invoked by alias); 17 Jan 2002 02:53:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 20668 invoked from network); 17 Jan 2002 02:53:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.wrs.com) (147.11.1.11) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 17 Jan 2002 02:53:28 -0000 Received: from kankakee.wrs.com (kankakee [147.11.37.13]) by mail.wrs.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA25015; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:51:41 -0800 (PST) From: mike stump Received: (from mrs@localhost) by kankakee.wrs.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.0) id SAA12430; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:52:54 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:20:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200201170252.SAA12430@kankakee.wrs.com> To: dj@redhat.com, jbuck@synopsys.COM Subject: Re: Remaining host configuration fragments Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, jsm28@cam.ac.uk X-SW-Source: 2002-01/txt/msg01198.txt.bz2 > From: Joe Buck > To: dj@redhat.com (DJ Delorie) > Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 11:25:12 -0800 (PST) > Cc: jsm28@cam.ac.uk, gcc@gcc.gnu.org, dj@redhat.com > Unfortunately, it's hard to avoid, unless we mark the vast majority > of platforms deprecated because no one sent us a test result during > development. A gcc that only supports 6 platforms, and nothing else isn't what we should sign up for. This would be bad. Making a decision that ultimately results in this outcome, is also bad and I am against it. I'd rather deprecate because we believe that no machines exist in production or near production use on the planet, not because of a lack of testcase submittal. Go count the number of platforms submitted in http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/buildstat.html. There aren't many. Bitrotting is fine. Everything bitrots. It is a natural state of affairs. As the code matures, the incident rate of bitrotting should decrease. A slightly bitrotted port is usually fairly easy to get going again. It is when we don't expect it is useful to get a port going again, that it might be beneficial to remove it. IBM-RT I think is finally dead. Quick, bonus points if someone can even name the chip in it. Kenner, you don't get to play (I think you wrote it). Likewise any OS that hasn't had a new release in 5 years. These are likely to not be worthwhile to preserve.