CCing the last two persons who submitted patches for OS/2
On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 04:13:23PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > We have a number of references to OS/2 throughout the build system > and source tree. According to Kyle Huey OS/2 has likely broken since > we removed --disable-ipc (bug 638755) in March 2011. > > While OS/2 is a tier-3 supported build configuration [1], we will > shortly be rewriting a bunch of the build rules to handle > non-recursive compilation. Since OS/2 is effectively dead as an > operating system and since it apparently hasn't been able to build > mozilla-central since 2011 without many people complaining AFAIK, > I'm proposing that we remove traces of OS/2 from the build system. > This likely plays out as not carrying OS/2 support forward as we > change things. If the OS/2 community wishes to submit patches to > re-add support, we can accept them, just like any tier-3 platform. > > Just to be clear, I don't believe other tier-3 operating systems may > fall victim during refactors. OS/2 is special in that the OS is > officially dead and sufficiently different from other supported > platforms. It therefore is a non-trivial burden for us to attempt > support as we perform large refactors to the build system. > > Are there any objections to this proposal? > > Gregory Szorc > Build Config Module Owner > > [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Supported_build_configurations > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
