FYI: GCC dropped score support

Joel Brobecker brobecker@adacore.com
Tue Oct 7 00:18:00 GMT 2014


> It seems pretty dead, the company's pages are 404, and the only
> product I can find that used it was the Mattel HyperScan, introduced in
> 2006 and discontinued in 2008 - apparently it made PC World's "10 Worst
> Videogames of All Time" list.
> 
> Even if the code isn't being used, I think it still costs us, in the
> sense that we have to think about whether it needs changing, it has
> to be patchedwhen there are global changes, and so forth.  So I
> think we should whack it soon as decently possible.  (Of course, the
> code will actually live on forever, in old releases and repos. :-) )

Seen under this light, it does make sense!

-- 
Joel



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