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Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs



On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Tyler Retzlaff <rtr%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>
> On 5/26/2015 5:46 PM, Michael van Elst wrote:
>>
>> ozaki-r%netbsd.org@localhost (Ryota Ozaki) writes:
>>
>>> The next sacrifice is ARCNET. It seems it hasn't been
>>> used for long years (7 years or more):
>>
>>
>> I wish people would put more energy in creating things
>> than destroying things they are not interested in.
>>
>
> i don't think it's fair to say something is being destroyed here.
>
> if it's in use fine let's keep it. otherwise retiring the code is favorable
> and not doing so is burdensome with respect to re-factoring code that is in
> use.

Yes. I believe the cleanups help later creative work.

  ozaki-r

>
> if someone does decide later they want it then they can pull it out of the
> attic and fix it up?
>
> rtr


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