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

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> On Mar 23, 2018, at 4:10 AM, Jan Tulak <jtulak@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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? :-)
> 

Patches are already on the list :)

Eric

> Jan
> 

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