[libdvdcss-devel] le grande cleanup

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

On 31 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote :
> r: "libdvdcss-devel" <libdvdcss-devel-bounces at videolan.org>
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> On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 08:24:18PM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> > On 30 Oct, Diego Biurrun wrote :
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I'm not sure we should keep it, tbh.
> > At worse, it's in the git.
> 
> This code cannot have seen much testing in the last 10 years ever since
> Windows 9x faded into obsolescence.  Here's a better log message:
> 
>   Drop support for ASPI disc access (and thus Windows 9x).
> 
>   The ASPI access method is only relevant on Windows 9x versions where no
>   alternative exists. However, These Windows versions are obsolete since a
>   long time and have no more real world usage. Also, the ASPI code is ugly
>   and a maintenance burden.
> 
> Good to go then?

Sure.

> > > I have had this very thought myself.  Maybe I'll get to it.
> > 
> > It feels cleaner, to me, and as libdvdcss is not that big piece of code,
> > it wouldn't hurt too much to keep other OSes in.
> 
> I don't mind keeping the other (fringe) OSes, but I'd like to reevaluate
> if they work at all, if they are worth keeping, and whether or not all
> that support code is truly necessary.

I know OS/2 and Solaris to work.

With my kindest regards,

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