> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 9:25 PM > From: "Justin Cormack" <[email protected]> > To: "Matt Thomas" <[email protected]> > Cc: port-arm <[email protected]>, current-users <[email protected]>, > [email protected] > Subject: Re: Removal of acorn26 port > > On 15 April 2015 at 21:20, Matt Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Justin Cormack > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will > >>> be removed in a week or two or three. Along with the removal will be the > >>> cleanup of the common arm to remove the arm26 bits associated with it. > >>> > >> > >> I guess someone might say it is not in line with the process outlined > >> on https://www.netbsd.org/ports/ > > > > acorn26 build but has been suspected of being broken for years. The last > > post > > to port-acorn26 was in 2011. > > Yes, I am sure it qualifies to move to tier III, and has done for some > years. Procedurally, moving it officially to tier III and then > removing all support for it from the common code to make it even more > broken (it would then be removed from the build matrix), and then > deleting it in 6 months might be better than just deleting it now. >
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. > Justin >
