From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: obsolete configurations Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:33:51 +0300 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3405-Tue14Jan2003213350+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042573377 27276 80.91.224.249 (14 Jan 2003 19:42:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 19:42:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18YWxb-00075g-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:42:55 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18YX5h-0000yT-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 20:51:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YWyJ-0007Eo-05 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:43:39 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YWtS-0005WO-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:38:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YWrA-0004la-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:36:17 -0500 Original-Received: from aragorn.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YWqw-0004hb-00; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 14:36:02 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretsky ([80.230.235.218]) by aragorn.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.1-GA) with ESMTP id ACS26431; Tue, 14 Jan 2003 21:35:06 +0200 (IST) Original-To: pot@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: (message from Francesco Potorti` on Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:05:08 +0100) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10729 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10729 > From: Francesco Potorti` > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 18:05:08 +0100 > > The recent latest gdb release obsoleted the following configurations. > Maybe they could also be removed from Emacs? I'm not against considering old platforms for deprecation (and have nothing intelligent to say about the specific platforms you listed), but I think we should be aware of several differences between GDB and Emacs: - Having a platform without a debugger is not as bad as having a platform without an editor. - A configuration is declared obsoleted for GDB when it is no longer actively maintained for some significant period of time, like a year or so. Since platform-depend parts of GDB are significantly larger than in Emacs, I don't think the GDB criteria for deprecation would be appropriate for Emacs.