From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6700 invoked by alias); 24 Mar 2006 04:25:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 6687 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Mar 2006 04:24:58 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (HELO xproxy.gmail.com) (66.249.82.207) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Mar 2006 04:24:56 +0000 Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i31so494478wxd for ; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:24:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.92.8 with SMTP id p8mr619524wxb; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:24:54 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.126.10 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:24:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0603232024u163c75edm20eb01ff1d476d18@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 08:31:00 -0000 From: "Jim Blandy" To: sje@cup.hp.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove gdb/nlm subdirectory Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: <200603240102.RAA18110@hpsje.cup.hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200603240102.RAA18110@hpsje.cup.hp.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-03/txt/msg00264.txt.bz2 On 3/23/06, Steve Ellcey wrote: > What do people think? Does one of the maintainers want to approve this > patch? In the past we've generally marked something as outgoing for a release, and then actually removed it in the next, or something roughly like that, to give people some warning in case someone wants to step up and maintain the code. On the other hand, I think GDB's policies have accumulated a lot of dead weight over the last few years; some existing practices are more trouble than they're worth, in my opinion. So I'm not sure it's deathly important to do a staged phase-out of the nlm directory. But I'd like to see some other maintainers' opinions on it, so that we're making a deliberate choice as a group about how to handle these cases.