On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 06:59:36PM +1000, Allan McRae 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? > > Allan >
No objection here. We don't seem to have anyone actively involved who's testing these platforms so it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to try and support them. I'd be surprised if recent pacman still built on cygwin. d
