[PATCH] Remove dolt

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 03:35:23PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 01:16:37AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > The faster libtool was actually released more than a month *before* dolt 
> > was released.
> > 
> > The author of dolt was just clever enough to compare the speed of dolt 
> > with an older much slower libtool in his announcement - and it worked
> > in convincing many people to use DOLT...
> 
> Sure, I have no objections to killing it now, but 'one month before'
> isn't really a useful metric:

My point is that the new and faster version of libtool was already 
available before dolt was released, and there never was a long-term need 
for dolt - that fact was rarely mentioned when people praised dolt.

> March 2008: libtool 2.2 ('almost entirely rewritten') released
> minutes later: Gentoo merge 2.2, which helps immensely while rebuilding
>                your entire system because libtool changed
> April 2008: dolt merged to xserver master
> April-September 2008: libtool 2.2.[246] maintenance releases, Gentoo
>                       users dismayed
> April 2009: Ubuntu jaunty released with 2.2.6
> June 2009: Fedora 11 released with 2.2.6
> April 2010: Ubuntu lucid LTS released with 2.2.6
> Today: Debian lenny (stable) _still_ shipping with 1.5.26

How many people actually use a vanilla Debian stable today?
I doubt there are many...

> Cheers,
> Daniel

cu
Adrian

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