From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS22989 209.51.188.0/24 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.9 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_INVALID, DKIM_SIGNED,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 675BC1F461 for ; Sat, 6 Jul 2019 00:28:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([::1]:57158 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjYYp-0000hW-PH for normalperson@yhbt.net; Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:28:15 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49219) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hjYYU-0000h5-3i for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:27:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjYYS-0005e6-DB for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:27:54 -0400 Received: from mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de ([2a01:238:20a:202:5300::7]:32523) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hjYYR-0005ZP-O3 for bug-gnulib@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Jul 2019 20:27:52 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1562372867; s=strato-dkim-0002; d=clisp.org; h=Message-ID:Date:Subject:To:From:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH:From: Subject:Sender; bh=uGlmcpRm4xkfK6wRFdYUjX6ieZ4/e5j/jtWY79QkbV4=; b=US830idWutnAl37HexJAx7nQsePBu1MihjSEMpKEarUVCdahGE2YzO+KwmxtxYACrF 8ez1f84jo+yELfdina6mhqybIvgo4nHr+xNo3ZjEOfBNDlZmxMfZCMnlQ4jv4ciqof6s xOAWE1mHbqbb65A8O1uv/ExEySVnE+55KM1W6n3kezmtSFUrTxvcmc1kD+Y66rhg4k4r bFFnGoOkHq/7yo28FvFY263UaH5Ava3tFRV7WLUTGBow32dd+CfBgczQQTzltAyweW9F n19Mp63t0Pn+dSPC8rlNGjODitXgXVtX2drnDitaoftb8K3Hy5mcG42AngMt3E6hTdDF eJEQ== X-RZG-AUTH: ":Ln4Re0+Ic/6oZXR1YgKryK8brlshOcZlIWs+iCP5vnk6shH+AHjwLuWOGaf0zJZW" X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from bruno.haible.de by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 44.24 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id v018bcv660RkVuP (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (curve secp521r1 with 521 ECDH bits, eq. 15360 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate); Sat, 6 Jul 2019 02:27:46 +0200 (CEST) From: Bruno Haible To: bug-gnulib@gnu.org Subject: dropping some old platforms from the doc Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 02:27:45 +0200 Message-ID: <5358627.jyL4EcGJXE@omega> User-Agent: KMail/5.1.3 (Linux/4.4.0-151-generic; KDE/5.18.0; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2a01:238:20a:202:5300::7 X-BeenThere: bug-gnulib@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Gnulib discussion list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnulib-bounces+normalperson=yhbt.net@gnu.org Sender: "bug-gnulib" Hi, I'd like to remove the mentions of the following old platforms from the gnulib documentation: Platform Comments -------- -------- glibc < 2.2 Linux libc5 Mac OS X < 10.5 AIX < 5 end of support in 2004 (AIX 4.3.3 released in 1999) HP-UX < 11 end of support in 2003 (HP-UX 10.30 released in 1997) IRIX < 6.5 IRIX 6.5 released in 1998. OSF/1 end of support in 2012 (OSF/1 5.1 released in 2000) Solaris < 9 end of support in 2012 (Solaris 8 released in 2000) Interix last supported in Windows 8 (Interix 6.1 released in 2010) BeOS BeOS 5.1 released in 2001 The reason is that it starts to clutter up the documentation, when you're looking for any more portability targets. Also, no one is testing these platforms any more. The corresponding code can still stay in gnulib, I don't mind. I'm not religious about shorter or longer 'configure' execution times, nor about the size of tarballs. Bruno