[illumos-Developer] clean up stale libplot and friends (lib300, etc.)

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:00 -0500, Andrew M. Hettinger wrote:
> Hey Garrett, 
> 
> Are PSARC cases 2009/540 and 2009/585 (referenced in the bug) open to
> public viewing?
> Can a link be added to the bug, please? I'd like to take a look at the
> scope and commentary on them.

They are public (for now).  Google is your friend. :-) 

	- Garrett
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Andrew Hettinger
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> 
> Garrett D'Amore <garrett at damore.org> wrote on 10/22/2010 02:35:48 AM:
> > 
> > This is covered in bug 364: https://www.illumos.org/issues/364
> > 
> > This EOF would *potentially* break some applications, but I am
> unaware
> > of any applications which use any of these libraries.  Carrying this
> > bitrotten code around just for the "sake" of binary compatibility
> > without any known consumers of it, seems ridiculous to me.
> Technically
> > this would have been harder to remove under PSARC rules at Sun, but
> I
> > think we can do better here.
> > 
> > Can anyone think of *any* reason we should keep these libraries
> around?
> > 
> > Note that source compatibility is achievable (or very nearly so)
> with
> > the much more modern GNU plotutils library, which distros can supply
> if
> > they need this for certain applications.
> > 
> > Applications that really need these ancient libraries probably are
> in
> > serious need of updating....  staleware.
> > 
> > If anyone has any serious objections to this, please place them in
> the
> > bug description or report them here.
> > 
> >    - Garrett
> 
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