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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 22:25:00 -0000
From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Retire the MPW support from toplevel and binutils
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:45:44 -0800
>>From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
>>
>>GNU support for MPW (Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) stopped working
>>some years ago, and has long since been flushed from GCC and GDB. So
>>I'm going to save everybody some disk space and remove the support bits
>>from the rest of src/, starting with this patch to the top level,
>>preapproved by DJ. (If a binutils maintainer would like to preapprove
>>the necessary binutils patches, that would be efficient.)
>>
>>Stan
>>
>>2004-03-24  Stan Shebs  <shebs@apple.com>
>>
>>        Remove MPW support, no longer used.
>>        * mpw-README, mpw-build.in, mpw-config.in, mpw-configure,
>>        mpw-install: Remove files.
>>        * src-release (DEVO_SUPPORT): Remove names of removed files.
>>        * MAINTAINERS: Likewise.
>>
>
>I think we need to update gdb/NEWS to say that MPW is removed, unless
>some previous GDB release already said that.
>
>
NEWS says it came out of GDB in 5.2; I'm just GCing the bits not
associated with any particular program.

Stan