Removing bitrotted system support: any progress?

[Steve Youngs]

* Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> writes:

  > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:
  >> Any progress on this?  (I know Jerry's busy, but other people may have
  >> done something with it.)

  > I did a survey of the s files a couple of days ago and took notes.
  > Wow, there are some old systems in there!  Most of the ones I'm going
  > to propose we dump were last sold in the 1990s, but there are a couple
  > that were last sold in the 1980s!

  > I have not done a survey of the m files yet, nor have I identified
  > which parts of configure and which unexec files can go.

A couple of weeks back I removed _all_ unexec and dynodump stuff from
SXEmacs[1].  I didn't delete any of the s&m files, I simply commented
anything defining unexec.  But I did delete all of the unexec and
dynodump files.

We'll certainly let you know if anything blows up. :-)



Footnotes: 
[1]  To Mike Sperber:  the problems I had was due to local filesystem
     breakage. 

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