Bruno Haible via Gnulib discussion list <[email protected]> writes: > I'll remove support for these two OSes from Gnulib in a couple of days. > There's no point in carrying around code that has not been tested in more > than 5 years and that is unlikely to be useful for porting to other platforms.
+1 on abstracting this to a general policy to remove support for anything that is EOL'd upstream plus some reasonable time margin (five years is certainly okay) to handle when platforms return from the dead, unless there is some deeper concern like bootstrapping that warrants keeping support even longer. It still irks me that gnulib used to work fine on Debian 3 woody but we started to break recently. I've given up and dropped my workarounds for this already, though. But what does the above mean, will you remove mentions of IRIX in the manual? We have collected a lot of knowledge about IRIX related to its bugs over the years. Maybe that is the right thing, anyone interested can find it in version control. /Simon
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