[Openmcl-devel] 1.12 release plans

[Matthew Stickney]

On 2/2/2018 12:36 AM, Hans Hübner wrote:
> It makes spend to have the resources that are available to improve CCL 
> not waste their precious time maintaining compatibility with an 
> architecture that is obsolete.

Isn't that an argument for separating the backends, though? To 
paraphrase a message I mistakenly sent off-list, I've still got x86 
machines that I use, and at work we've still got customers running x86 
boxes, so they're definitely still around. Why throw away a working 
backend if the target hardware is still being used? Splitting the x86 
and x86_64 backends isn't free, but it ought to be a one-time cost that 
minimizes the amount of time the maintainers have to spend dealing with x86.

-Matt Stickney