From: "Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>
To: "Ni, Ray" <ray.ni@intel.com>,
"devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>
Cc: "Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>,
"Kinney, Michael D" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>,
"Gao, Zhichao" <zhichao.gao@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC]Drop EDK Shell (EdkShellPkg) support
Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2019 09:32:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <27ef5e8e-2aeb-b6bc-ee05-c1449a9893fe@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <734D49CCEBEEF84792F5B80ED585239D5C3976F0@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
On 12/10/19 09:21, Ni, Ray wrote:
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2413 was submitted.
>
> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ni, Ray
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:27 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>; Gao, Zhichao <zhichao.gao@intel.com>
> Subject: [edk2-devel] [RFC]Drop EDK Shell (EdkShellPkg) support
>
> All,
> Given the fact EdkShellPkg was deleted from edk2 repo one year ago (6caf954c1bf9), I propose to drop the support of EDK Shell in ShellPkg.
> The EDK Shell support is mainly in ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellLib. The library supports to build individual shell apps that can run in both UEFI Shell and EDK Shell environment. EDK Shell environment support is what this RFC wants to remove.
> Besides that, below components can also be removed:
> ShellPkg/Include/Guid/ShellEnvironment2Ext.h
> ShellPkg/Include/Protocol/
>
> Jaben raised this idea and Laszlo had no concern.
That's right; I'm OK with this proposal -- it's always good if we can
simplify things, and in this case I have no compatibility needs or concerns.
Thanks!
Laszlo
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2019-12-10 8:21 ` [RFC]Drop EDK Shell (EdkShellPkg) support Ni, Ray
2019-12-10 8:32 ` Laszlo Ersek [this message]
2019-10-10 3:27 Ni, Ray
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