On 23/09/12 22:02, Rémy Oudompheng wrote: > On 2012/9/23 Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: >> I would like opinions on dropping support for non-ELF systems. This >> would keep Linux, BSD and Hurd, which are the real users of >> pacman/makepkg. It would drop OSX and Cygwin support. >> >> Currently the libdepends/libprovides code in makepkg (pacman-4.0) >> depends on libraries being ELF formatted and we have had no complaints - >> although that could be because no-one uses it... >> >> Creating split debug packages will also assume ELF formatted files and I >> have no intention of adjusting the code in such a way that other formats >> can be readily added. >> >> So... any objections to removing cygwin and darwin support? > > Does it simplify anything? I would have thought they would continue to > work normally except that the newest features that you mention would > simply not work/be ignored/be disabled on these systems.
It would simplify the need to detect these systems and disable the relevant features... And supporting OSX has always been annoying. Allan
