Re: Removal of acorn26 port

On 04/16/15 08:25, Justin Cormack wrote:
> On 16 April 2015 at 00:51, Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> In article <trinity-40fe500f-df8d-4b60-a4b4-3b73f95b9bfe-1429133530648@3capp-mailcom-bs10>,
>> Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> I strongly agree, please follow the rules and move it to Tier III even now.
>>> There are more broken or incomplete ports than acorn26.
>>>
>>> acorn26 should run on emulators/arcem, it's worth to give it a try.
>> I a proponent of following the rules, but I feel we've been dragging
>> dead bodies and it's having an impact in our available resources.
>>
>> People who use the port should shout if they want the port kept around.
> Once it is moved to tier III it should not impact any work anyone
> wants to do, as making it more broken is then fine.
>
> Deleting a port that our documentation says is supported with two
> weeks notice, when we have a documented procedure after an email to
> some lists people may not even be on may well make people worried that
> the port they use might disappear while they are on holiday. And the
> documentation needs fixing.

With all due respect to process...

The portmaster resigned from the project.

The only (visible) user has stashed his machine in a closet.

gcc 4.8 almost certainly broke the toolchain

It's time to delete it.

Nick