Re: [pacman-dev] Dropping support for non-ELF systems

On 23/09/12 22:02, Rémy Oudompheng wrote:

On 2012/9/23 Allan McRae wrote:

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I would like opinions on dropping support for non-ELF systems. This would keep Linux, BSD and Hurd, which are the real users of pacman/makepkg. It would drop OSX and Cygwin support.

Currently the libdepends/libprovides code in makepkg (pacman-4.0) depends on libraries being ELF formatted and we have had no complaints - although that could be because no-one uses it...

Creating split debug packages will also assume ELF formatted files and I have no intention of adjusting the code in such a way that other formats can be readily added.

So... any objections to removing cygwin and darwin support?

Does it simplify anything? I would have thought they would continue to work normally except that the newest features that you mention would simply not work/be ignored/be disabled on these systems.

It would simplify the need to detect these systems and disable the relevant features... And supporting OSX has always been annoying. Allan