On 12/8/21 1:37 PM, Nick Kew wrote:
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>> On 7 Dec 2021, at 13:50, Mladen Turk <mt...@apache.org> wrote:
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>> There are still bunch of Netware code
>> polluting win32 code in apr/trunk.
>>
>> Since the Netware itself is discontinued for
>> quit some time, I wonder the effective purpose
>> of that code inside apr.
>>
>> I propose to remove all that
>> #ifdef NETWARE from file_io/win32 and others,
>> since IMHO those are totally unusable.
>
> If you can do that cleanly then great!
>
> Should we draw a clean line under released branches,
> so anything later than 1.7.x drops Netware, regardless
> of whether it's a 1.8 or a 2.0?
I think our API / ABI rules do not allow this for 1.8, only for 2.0.
But the question is if we are wiling to break them for a platform that is no
longer maintained by us and is out of vendor support
for many years. Hence it likely will not affect our users if we do this in 1.8.
Regards
Rüdiger
