[libdvdcss-devel] le grande cleanup

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Thu Oct 30 14:01:28 CET 2014


On 29 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote :
> I think Windows 9x should go for sure.  The others we can discuss.

Be careful: what is called here "Win9x" is in fact Adaptec SCSI
interface and runs also on Windows XP.

> [PATCH 43/46] Drop support for BeOS.
> [PATCH 44/46] Drop support for QNX.
> [PATCH 45/46] Drop support for OS/2.
> [PATCH 46/46] Drop support for Solaris.

I think this is not the way to go:
The way to go is to split this code in different files, one per OS, with
a common code calling the OS-specific functions so that supporting the rarest
OSes does not burden the maintenance of the other ones.

With my kindest regards,

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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