Re: RFC: removing non-linux platform support from xfsprogs

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Darrick J. Wong
<darrick.wong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 11:17:30AM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 5/27/17 2:41 AM, Jan Tulak wrote:
>> > On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 11:47 PM, Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> There's a bunch of mucking about to try to build xfsprogs on non-linux
>> >> platforms.  Is anyone using that, or care about it?  If not, I propose
>> >> removing it all in a cruft-reducing effort.
>> >>
>> >> If I'm missing some good reason for it to be there, please educate me,
>> >> and I'll leave it alone.
>> >>
>> >> In particular, Jan - I know you did a lot of this work - do you still
>> >> use it?
>> >>
>> >
>> > I used the macos stuff at the beginning to get into the code with
>> > little risk of breaking anything. Until it is possible to mount xfs in
>> > the other systems, xfsprogs is useless there... So, I'm ok with the
>> > removal of macos code. I don't know how it is with the other systems,
>> > though.
>>
>> Ok, thanks - honestly if you still use it, that's fine.  But if you're
>> not ... and nobody else is ... let's nuke it.  ;)
>
> Ten months and nobody else has said anything, let's nuke non-linux
> support.
>

Sure. Are you working on it, or would you appreciate if someone took
care of it? :-)

Jan
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