From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:08:43 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 00/10] Proposals of deprecation/removal, mainly affecting toolchain In-Reply-To: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> References: <1404237789-15563-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> Message-ID: <53B3073B.8090005@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 07/01/2014 03:02 PM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Hello, > > This set of patches proposes a certain number of deprecation or > removal. They are mostly independent from each other: Hi, let's see each point. > - Deprecation of the AVR32 architecture. +1 from me, it's a dead-end and i've been (not secretly) hoping for this. > - Removal of old binutils versions > - Removal of uClibc 0.9.32.1 > - Removal of gcc 4.3.x and 4.6.x > - Removal of gdb 7.4 and 7.5 > - Removal of busybox version selection All of these should follow the deprecation guidelines i think? Busybox in particular should keep at least a previous version around, because there have been cases of .0 releases being quite broken. Maybe patches show up soon but they don't follow a release schedule like we do and there could be problems with that. Also punching a hole in gcc version continuity even though logical sounds dirty (and really they aren't stopping any features other than missing atomics in old versions). Regards.