Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

[Andrew Cagney]

Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> This is the last of the systems on the 5.1 hit list.
> 
>         enjoy,
>                 Andrew

Tis done.  Sigh!

	Andrew

Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is the last of the systems on the 5.1 hit list.
> > 
> >         enjoy,
> >                 Andrew
> 
> Tis done.  Sigh!

I'm a bit worried by this removal of support for systems which are
deemed old/unmaintained/whatever, although I understand how leaving
them in the code base could hamper development.  However, imagine
someone who just happens to need a working GDB version on one of these
platforms--it could be next to impossible getting there, and the
better job we do at cleanup, the harder it will be.

So how about adding to the distribution a file that would list, for
each platform whose support was discontinued, the last GDB version
that was known to build and work on that platform?  This would at
least allow people to fetch such an old version, build it, use it, and
maybe retrofit that support into the current sources using the old
version as the base.

Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

[Andrew Cagney]

Did I reply to this?

> I'm a bit worried by this removal of support for systems which are
> deemed old/unmaintained/whatever, although I understand how leaving
> them in the code base could hamper development.  However, imagine
> someone who just happens to need a working GDB version on one of these
> platforms--it could be next to impossible getting there, and the
> better job we do at cleanup, the harder it will be.

The old files and configurations are available in either CVS, or, for 
for the really old stuff, in the GDB archives (on the FTP site).


> So how about adding to the distribution a file that would list, for
> each platform whose support was discontinued, the last GDB version
> that was known to build and work on that platform?  This would at
> least allow people to fetch such an old version, build it, use it, and
> maybe retrofit that support into the current sources using the old
> version as the base

Hopefully people can figure this out from the NEWS file.  Each 
target/system should have an entry recording when it was added and when 
it was deleted (a few don't though).

	Andrew

Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Did I reply to this?

Not until now, you didn't ;-)

> > So how about adding to the distribution a file that would list, for
> > each platform whose support was discontinued, the last GDB version
> > that was known to build and work on that platform?  This would at
> > least allow people to fetch such an old version, build it, use it, and
> > maybe retrofit that support into the current sources using the old
> > version as the base
> 
> Hopefully people can figure this out from the NEWS file.  Each 
> target/system should have an entry recording when it was added and when 
> it was deleted (a few don't though).

Then we should IMHO pay more attention to documenting this in NEWS (as 
well as keeping NEWS up-to-date with user-visible changes in general ;-).