RE: [lwip-devel] byte order, packing, optimizations

[Kieran Mansley]

On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:15 -0500, Bill Auerbach wrote:

> >With such files, it's the same as with everything in contrib: it only
> >goes in if it has an active maintainer under the lwIP developers. And
> I
> >can certainly say that I don't wish to maintain several
> assembler-files
> >myself! If someone would like to step up as maintainer, these files
> are
> >of course welcome!
> 
> Ok, please tell me who is maintaining the contrib/ports/old?  They are
> there
> for reference, right? What's the difference with my suggestion?

The difference is that at the time those files were added there wasn't
the policy of having an active maintainer for source as a requirement
for it to go in.  When I introduced that policy we moved anything that
didn't have a maintainer into that directory rather than throw it away
as that seemed less harsh.  That doesn't justify adding more stuff
without a maintainer though.  It does make me think that we should now
package the old ports up into a zip, put them on the download site, link
from the wiki and remove from contrib though.

Thanks

Kieran