From: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
To: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Target deprecation, round four
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2003 19:46:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87znobylft.fsf@egil.codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030304164917.GA358@doctormoo> (Nathanael Nerode's message of "Tue, 4 Mar 2003 11:49:17 -0500")
Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> writes:
>Richard Earnshaw said:
>>Surely a release containing the deprecation announcement should be
>>made *before* we start removing the code... As it stands you are
>>proposing to delete the code from the mainline before most of the
>>world is even aware of this.
>
> I deprecated vax-vms for 3.3 and promptly deleted it from mainline.
> But this is because vax-vms (a) wasn't working, (b) hadn't been for
> a long time, and (c) had over 10,000 lines of code devoted to it. I
> would agree that deletions of *working* targets be delayed until the
> version with the deprecation has been released. But deletions of
> *non-working* targets, I think, can take place as soon as possible.
The trouble with this otherwise reasonable suggestion is, (a) I have
no way to tell whether the majority of the targets on the list are
still working; (b) we have no schedule for the 3.3 release. Also, I
am holding off on several performance patches that will involve
touching lots of back-end code, because I don't want to waste time on
targets that will be deleted in short order. And it's not hard to
pull a deleted target back from CVS if someone does turn up expressing
interest.
But a wider announcement should happen. How about I send the list to
gcc-announce now, and wait another week before making any actual
changes?
zw
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-04 19:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-03-04 16:57 Nathanael Nerode
2003-03-04 19:46 ` Zack Weinberg [this message]
2003-03-04 19:48 ` Mark Ferrell
2003-03-04 19:56 ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-03-05 10:24 ` Nathan Sidwell
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-03-04 5:43 Zack Weinberg
2003-03-04 5:43 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-03-04 6:06 ` Zack Weinberg
2003-03-04 10:33 ` Richard Earnshaw
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