Re: Recent removal of a.out and COFF support for sparc

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 08/08/2018 03:54 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Again, this isn't fair. You cannot expect having to step up as a maintainer
>> just because they are users of some code.
> 
> Not every user has to step up, but someone has to step up. Someone
> has to take care of the code, and using the fair-unfair approach,
> it would not be fair to ask existing maintainers to maintain a target
> they are not interested in either.

Again, I understand the problem, it's not the first time I am having
such a discussion. There was a similar one regarding POWER5 support
in Golang [1] and the SPE backend in gcc [2].

The problem is just that we are talking about code here that people
are actively using so I'm not sure what the alternatives are.

Adrian

> [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19074
> [2] https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=81084

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