[edk2-devel] [RFC]Drop EDK Shell (EdkShellPkg) support

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 12/10/19 09:21, Ni, Ray wrote:
> https://bugzilla.tianocore.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2413 was submitted.
> 
> From: devel at edk2.groups.io <devel at edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Ni, Ray
> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 11:27 AM
> To: devel at edk2.groups.io
> Cc: Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey at intel.com>; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney at intel.com>; Laszlo Ersek <lersek at redhat.com>; Gao, Zhichao <zhichao.gao at 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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