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Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host



On Wed, 9 May 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Did I reply to this?

Not until now, you didn't ;-)

> > So how about adding to the distribution a file that would list, for
> > each platform whose support was discontinued, the last GDB version
> > that was known to build and work on that platform?  This would at
> > least allow people to fetch such an old version, build it, use it, and
> > maybe retrofit that support into the current sources using the old
> > version as the base
> 
> Hopefully people can figure this out from the NEWS file.  Each 
> target/system should have an entry recording when it was added and when 
> it was deleted (a few don't though).

Then we should IMHO pay more attention to documenting this in NEWS (as 
well as keeping NEWS up-to-date with user-visible changes in general ;-).


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