On Jul 21, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote: > > [darwin, cygwin, rx maintainers, you might have an opinion]
darwin going forward is a DWARF platform, so, shouldn't be a heartache for real folks. For ancient machines, ancient compilers might be a requirement. Generally, I like keeping things; but cleanups and removals are a part of life, and eventually the old should be removed. I'd not stand in the way of such removal. If we were within 5 years of such a transition point, I'd argue to keep it for at least 5 years. But, the switch for darwin was Oct 26th, 2007. 10 years I think is a nice cutover point for first tier things. Beyond 10, and I'd say, you are dragging your feet. If _all_ the code for DBX were in my port file, I'd be tempted to keep it indefinitely. It's not, so, that's not possible/reasonable. Iain, do you still have the G5s? :-) Do they run 8 or 9? What do you think? Seem reasonable? The 64_BIT x86 darwin question likely can be be flipped to default to dwarf; so, even that isn't an issue.
