Re: End of life dates vs regression test matrix

On 2024-06-14 10:09, Dan Kegel wrote:
> Oh, ok, perhaps I was confused by the note in automake 1.13.1's NEWS file
> (iirc), which said
> 
> Support for IRIX and the SGI C/C++ compilers will be removed in
>   Automake 1.14: they have seen their last release in 2006, and SGI
>   is expected to retire support from them in December 2013
> 
> Did that not happen?

This note was removed from the NEWS file in Automake 1.13.2 and replaced
with a note that only depcomp support for automatic dependency tracking
was planned to be removed in Automake 2.0.

"Automake 2.0" never materialized (probably won't) and the depcomp
script today still has the code to handle SGI compilers (Sadly, I don't
currently have an SGI/IRIX setup in my collection to test this).

But even if it were removed automatic dependency tracking is not an
important feature: packages can still be built fine without it.

Cheers,
  Nick