[libdvdcss-devel] le grande cleanup

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 02:01:28PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> 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.

I was wondering myself due to the "ASPI" in the names.  That still leaves
the question of whether or not this code is worth keeping.  On Windows XP
the other access method is available, isn't it?

> > [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.

I have had this very thought myself.  Maybe I'll get to it.

Diego