Retiring from uClibc development

Mike Frysinger vapier at gentoo.org
Tue Apr 11 17:37:10 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:27, Erik Andersen wrote:
> On Tue Apr 11, 2006 at 01:18:42PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:11, Erik Andersen wrote:
> > > This leaves e1 frv h8300 i960 nios sh64 v850 and vax as arches
> > > with questionable developer support.
> >
> > frv should be somewhat ok ...
> >
> > nios should be usuable now thanks to the guy who was fixing up nios2
> >
> > sh64 is in limbo due to the state of the respective flux in silicon
> >
> > vax is maintained (we just added the dev for that)
>
> Which leaves e1 h8300 i960 and v850 and mostly unmaintained archs
> and candidates for removal unless someone steps up and gives them
> some love,

personally i dislike removing ports as the amount of work required for adding 
it anew versus updating an existing broken port is significant

we've already marked them as "broken" and in need of love ... do we really 
need to cut them when they arent causing problems for others ?
-mike



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