Re: [libdvdcss-devel] le grande cleanup
Jean-Baptiste Kempf <[email protected]>
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On 31 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote : > r: "libdvdcss-devel" <[email protected]> > X-UID: 730 > Content-Length: 2511 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 08:24:18PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > On 30 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote : > > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:01:28PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote: > > > > On 29 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote : > > > > > I think Windows 9x should go for sure. The others we can discuss. > > > > > > > > Be careful: what is called here "Win9x" is in fact Adaptec SCSI > > > > interface and runs also on Windows XP. > > > > > > I was wondering myself due to the "ASPI" in the names. That still leaves > > > the question of whether or not this code is worth keeping. > > > > I'm not sure we should keep it, tbh. > > At worse, it's in the git. > > This code cannot have seen much testing in the last 10 years ever since > Windows 9x faded into obsolescence. Here's a better log message: > > Drop support for ASPI disc access (and thus Windows 9x). > > The ASPI access method is only relevant on Windows 9x versions where no > alternative exists. However, These Windows versions are obsolete since a > long time and have no more real world usage. Also, the ASPI code is ugly > and a maintenance burden. > > Good to go then? Sure. > > > I have had this very thought myself. Maybe I'll get to it. > > > > It feels cleaner, to me, and as libdvdcss is not that big piece of code, > > it wouldn't hurt too much to keep other OSes in. > > I don't mind keeping the other (fringe) OSes, but I'd like to reevaluate > if they work at all, if they are worth keeping, and whether or not all > that support code is truly necessary. I know OS/2 and Solaris to work. With my kindest regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Kempf http://www.jbkempf.com/ - +33 672 704 734 Sent from my Electronic Device _______________________________________________ libdvdcss-devel mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.videolan.org/listinfo/libdvdcss-devel