Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2013 12:44:32 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: "Sam Fourman Jr." <sfourman@gmail.com>, toolchain@freebsd.org, Boris Samorodov <bsam@passap.ru>, FreeBSD Current <current@freebsd.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: GCC withdraw Message-ID: <81EF1224-CA6C-43AD-9364-3D8CD418951D@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <20130901180350.GA12351@lonesome.com> References: <20130822200902.GG94127@funkthat.com> <201308291344.25562.jhb@freebsd.org> <A981C965-D625-458B-B0AB-171C983AEA42@FreeBSD.org> <201308301041.18874.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130901180350.GA12351@lonesome.com>
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On Sep 1, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:41:18AM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: >> So my take away from this is that you have no plans to support any = platform >> that doesn't support clang as you just expect ia64 and sparc64 to die = and >> not be present in 11.0. That may be the best path, but I've = certainly not >> seen that goal discussed publically. >=20 > If this is the case, IMHO: >=20 > - it's a decision to be made by the project as a whole, not just one > individual; >=20 > - if the decision is made, there should be one major release cycle > before it's done; >=20 > - our userbase (admittedly small) should have a heads-up that they > will have to migrate after that timeframe. >=20 > fwiw, unlike alpha, which was withdrawn because it had ceased to = function, > sparc64 and ia64 work and have active developer(s), so I don't think = it > would be entirely fair to cite its removal as a precedent. >=20 > tl;dr: just because you don't use these boxes doesn't mean others = don't. I'm working on a set of ports that can be installed so you can use the = external toolchain support in the tree... But it is being a pain since = there turns out to be some unexpected interdependencies and ordering = that's tricky to get right. But this does mean I've extracted the FreeBSD specific changes into a = series of patches... Warner
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