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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
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