What about embedded users? A lot of them have long release cycles like 4 or 5 years and may not notice issues until a couple of major releases are out. Has any one contacted the busybox developers, if they are OK with miniperl removal? Olga On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:17 PM, David Golden <xdaveg@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: >> >> Given that we've managed to break microperl in two stable releases in the >> past 3 years without anyone noticing until some time afterwards, and it costs >> us time and effort to maintain it, I propose that we announce in 5.18.0 that >> we're planning to eliminate it, and if no-one gives a good use case as to >> why to keep it, we cull it before 5.20.0 ships. > > +1 -- , _ _ , { \/`o;====- Olga Kryzhanovska -====;o`\/ } .----'-/`-/ olga.kryzhanovska@gmail.com \-`\-'----. `'-..-| / http://twitter.com/fleyta \ |-..-'` /\/\ Solaris/BSD//C/C++ programmer /\/\ `--` `--`Thread Previous | Thread Next