[libdvdcss-devel] le grande cleanup
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
jb at videolan.org
Fri Oct 31 03:56:40 CET 2014
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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Jean-Baptiste Kempf
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