Re: [5.1/rfc] Obsolete MPW host

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz at is dot elta dot co dot il>]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > This is the last of the systems on the 5.1 hit list.
> > 
> >         enjoy,
> >                 Andrew
> 
> Tis done.  Sigh!

I'm a bit worried by this removal of support for systems which are
deemed old/unmaintained/whatever, although I understand how leaving
them in the code base could hamper development.  However, imagine
someone who just happens to need a working GDB version on one of these
platforms--it could be next to impossible getting there, and the
better job we do at cleanup, the harder it will be.

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.