Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-22 Thread Matt Thomas
acorn26 was moved to Tier III last week and unless someone steps forward it will be removed sometime in Mid-October 2015. To quote http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ : “The reasons can range from lack of community interest to the hardware becoming so rare that it is simply not available any more.

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-17 Thread Justin Cormack
On 17 April 2015 at 13:02, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Moving a port to Tier III and letting it become more broken is not fair; better to be honest and put it out of its misery. It has been moved to tier III... https://www.netbsd.org/ports/ Since there is no immediate

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-17 Thread Rhialto
On Fri 17 Apr 2015 at 12:02:04 +, Thomas Mueller wrote: For that matter, does anybody still use port-vax? I have a few microVAXen... -Olaf. -- ___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert -- The Doctor: No, 'eureka' is Greek for \X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl-- 'this bath is too hot.' pgpxDeoZtn55O.pgp

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-17 Thread John Klos
Hi, I can't figure how I'd use it or find a compatible computer; running in an emulator doesn't really count. True. Just like the ns32k, it was nice, but without hardware to run it, it's hardly worth the effort. For that matter, does anybody still use port-vax? Actually, yes. That port

Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Matt Thomas
Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be removed in a week or two or three. Along with the removal will be the cleanup of the common arm to remove the arm26 bits associated with it.

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Justin Cormack
On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be removed in a week or two or three. Along with the removal will be the cleanup of the common arm to remove the arm26 bits associated with it. I

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread John Klos
Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be removed in a week or two or three. Along with the removal will be the cleanup of the common arm to remove the arm26 bits associated with it. Does the port currently work? If so, maybe it'd be nice to have a 7.0

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Joerg Sonnenberger
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 01:20:33PM -0700, Matt Thomas wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Matt Thomas
On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be removed in a week or two or three. Along with the removal will

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Christos Zoulas
In article trinity-40fe500f-df8d-4b60-a4b4-3b73f95b9bfe-1429133530648@3capp-mailcom-bs10, Kamil Rytarowski n...@gmx.com wrote: I strongly agree, please follow the rules and move it to Tier III even now. There are more broken or incomplete ports than acorn26. acorn26 should run on

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Mindaugas Rasiukevicius
Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: acorn26 build but has been suspected of being broken for years. The last post to port-acorn26 was in 2011. Yes, I am sure it qualifies to move to tier III, and has done for some years. Procedurally, moving it officially to tier III and

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Kamil Rytarowski
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 at 9:25 PM From: Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com To: Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com Cc: port-arm port-...@netbsd.org, current-users current-users@netbsd.org, port-acor...@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Removal of acorn26 port On 15 April 2015

Re: Removal of acorn26 port

2015-04-15 Thread Justin Cormack
On 15 April 2015 at 21:20, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: On Apr 15, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Justin Cormack jus...@specialbusservice.com wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 14:36, Matt Thomas m...@3am-software.com wrote: Unless someone can give a good reason to keep it, the acorn26 port will be