From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23330 invoked by alias); 4 Oct 2002 00:50:34 -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 23273 invoked from network); 4 Oct 2002 00:50:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO disaster.jaj.com) (66.93.21.106) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Oct 2002 00:50:33 -0000 Received: (from phil@localhost) by disaster.jaj.com (8.11.4/8.11.4) id g940oMn27159; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 19:50:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 18:48:00 -0000 From: Phil Edwards To: Joe Buck Cc: Stan Shebs , Richard Henderson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: deprecate i960 now? Message-ID: <20021003205022.B27093@disaster.jaj.com> References: <3D9C8B8A.9020500@apple.com> <200210040018.g940Iac02570@piper.synopsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200210040018.g940Iac02570@piper.synopsys.com>; from jbuck@synopsys.com on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:18:36PM -0700 X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00206.txt.bz2 On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 05:18:36PM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > If we have no maintainer and no i960 processors, and the gdb folks are > taking away resources, we can't maintain it. We can have an alternate > designation in such cases, "orphaned" rather than "deprecated", meaning > it's on hold until volunteers step up to the challenge of keeping it > going. [...] > Agreed, which is why an "orphaned" status might be better. The code can > stay around, but maintainance goes on hold until someone takes it over. I don't understand the advantage of keeping code in the tree that we know doesn't work, or at least /will/ break given that there's nobody maintaining it. Surely a future interested developer can fetch the last- known-working version of i960 code from CVS with not much difficulty. Phil -- I would therefore like to posit that computing's central challenge, viz. "How not to make a mess of it," has /not/ been met. - Edsger Dijkstra, 1930-2002