Re: Removing ARCNET stuffs

[Don Lee <MacPPC2%c.icompute.com@localhost>]

"…small, mechanical changes"??

Famous last words. ;->

-dgl-

On Jun 2, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 02, 2015 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
>> Asking for ARCNET support in the absence of hardware to test on,
>> however, is really asking for something quite different.  Since you
>> can't make more than small, mechanical changes to anything and expect
>> it to work without testing (and I'm not even sure about the small,
>> mechanical changes) what is being asked instead is that nothing be
>> done that requires changes to the ARCNET code on the disk right
>> now, nor the framework it relies on to operate, while making it
>> someone else's problem to figure out how to deal with that constraint.
>> This isn't fair, and I don't think it has any possibility of working.
> 
> Amen.
> 
> Joerg