Re: RFC: removing non-linux platform support from xfsprogs

["Darrick J. Wong" <darrick.wong@oracle.com>]

On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:17:30AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> 
> 
> On 5/27/17 2:41 AM, Jan Tulak wrote:
> > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> wrote:
> >> There's a bunch of mucking about to try to build xfsprogs on non-linux
> >> platforms.  Is anyone using that, or care about it?  If not, I propose
> >> removing it all in a cruft-reducing effort.
> >>
> >> If I'm missing some good reason for it to be there, please educate me,
> >> and I'll leave it alone.
> >>
> >> In particular, Jan - I know you did a lot of this work - do you still
> >> use it?
> >>
> > 
> > I used the macos stuff at the beginning to get into the code with
> > little risk of breaking anything. Until it is possible to mount xfs in
> > the other systems, xfsprogs is useless there... So, I'm ok with the
> > removal of macos code. I don't know how it is with the other systems,
> > though.
> 
> Ok, thanks - honestly if you still use it, that's fine.  But if you're
> not ... and nobody else is ... let's nuke it.  ;)

Ten months and nobody else has said anything, let's nuke non-linux
support.

--D

> -Eric
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