> I recently wrote to delete all the VAX/OS2/DOS/Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. That commit 10a766eb you linked to

> I recently wrote to delete all the VAX/OS2/DOS/Amiga code from GNU Make and it ended up being 201,049 lines of deletions. That commit 10a766eb you linked to appears to have significantly more than removal of those architectures -- you also appear to have deleted all the tests, documentation, and support for multiple (human) languages. Of the portions of diff which aren't deleted files, many of the deletions seem to be around code reformatting (i.e. they add a line for each line they remove), and removal of includes which your libc doesn't need / support. I do see that you have removed several #ifdef VMS (and similar) stanzas, but the vast bulk of the changes are either removal of, or modifications to, unrelated files. Although I agree instinctively that we shouldn't expect to run the latest version of Make on the VAX in our basement, this diff doesn't make that argument very well and IMO borders on disingenous. Or, to put it another way, after looking at your diff, I feel much happier about your hypothetical make-on-Amiga afficionado, because I know that they also care about i18n, documentation, and testing!