Story behind PCC's removal?

2012-06-18 Thread Aaron W. Hsu
So, from what I can tell, PCC has been removed from the core tree. I have not been able to find the story behind why it was moved out, except some minor mention of a lack of maintainer? Is there still any active effort to move the code base of OpenBSD away from GCC dependence? -- Aaron W.

Re: Story behind PCC's removal?

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Hessler
On 2012 Jun 18 (Mon) at 17:16:25 + (+), Aaron W. Hsu wrote: :lack of maintainer That is exactly the case. Nobody actually did the work make it rock our socks. -- Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Re: Story behind PCC's removal?

2012-06-18 Thread Stefan Wollny
That' sad - who got lost? STEFAN Gesendet: Montag, 18. Juni 2012 um 23:44 Uhr Von: Peter Hessler phess...@theapt.org An: Aaron W. Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us Cc: misc@openbsd.org Betreff: Re: Story behind PCC's removal? On 2012 Jun 18 (Mon) at 17:16:25 + (+), Aaron W. Hsu wrote: :lack

Re: Story behind PCC's removal?

2012-06-18 Thread Matthew Dempsky
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Aaron W. Hsu arcf...@sacrideo.us wrote: Is there still any active effort to move the code base of OpenBSD away from GCC dependence? There's some grassroots effort to make Clang a viable option, but nothing super organized at the moment.