Re: Retire the MPW support from toplevel and binutils

[Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>]

Andrew Cagney wrote:

>> On Mar 25, 2004, at 7:31 AM, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm sure you already knew this, but you'll need to update the cvs 
>>>> modules for the repository at the same time you're doing this - 
>>>> these files are explicitly named in there:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Er, the modules file should _not_ be updated.  You can always add, 
>>> but never remove entries.
>>
>>
>>
>> In this case, these support files have been obsolete for longer than 
>> the sourceware repositories have been live.  From a completely 
>> maniacal outlook we'd never want to remove files like this, but 
>> looking at it realistically, there's nothing being lost here.  Yes, 
>> if someone checks out binutils 2.10 (one of the first releases after 
>> the repositories moved to sourceware, circa June 2000) by a cvs 
>> command they'll be missing the mpw support files from the top level.
>
>
> On the other hand this will cause them to mysteriously disappear from 
> the current live GDB and BINUTILS branches.
>
> Anyway to sit on this until after there's been a release pulled from 
> those branches?

Well, they're not any different from what was in any of the last
releases. In fact, those files haven't been touched (except for
a couple mass-edits) since I last worked on them, in 1996. So on
the off chance that some software archaeologist wants to get a
PhD studying the mysteries of Mac in GNU (hey, it could happen!),
there will be plenty of releases where the latest versions may
be found.

Stan