[1533] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: What do we want to do about i386_linux1?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Nygren)
Wed Nov 27 18:06:42 1996
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jered@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Nov 1996 15:36:39 EST."
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Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 18:06:11 EST
From: Erik Nygren <nygren@MIT.EDU>
> I think it would be a good idea for us to decide what we plan to do
> about i386_linux1... What do people think?
>
> Well, for starters, I think this is an issue for individual locker
> maintainers, not linux-dev... In any lockers that I help maintain, I
> prefer to simply erase any a.out executables I come across (and I've
> done this in a few lockers). If you want to go through the effort of
> keeping and wrapping the executables, go ahead...
Any purge should _NOT_ be done before IAP. We have had explicit
requests from a number of users who are working on theses/final projects/etc,
and haven't had time or a reason to upgrade. Unless there's a crunch for
space, we should keep a.out binaries around (unsupported) for
as long as possible. That doesn't mean we have to build any more....
Erik
