Remove support for old socket implementations

[Chris Hegarty]

On 14/02/14 14:04, Alan Bateman wrote:
> On 14/02/2014 13:52, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> This patch removes support for old, pre-1.4 SocketImpl and
>> DatagramSocketImpl classes.  Compiling these classes has been
>> impossible since 1.4 because 1.4 added new abstract methods to the
>> base classes.
>>
>> Is this okay in principle?  Could you create bug ID for this?
>>
> I don't have any objection but I think it requires a bit of discussion
> and some insight into whether anyone might be running with ancient
> SocketImpl (that would have been compiled a long time ago).

It would certainly be nice to remove this old crud, if only as a clean 
up exercise, but I'm just wondering about the motivation for this.

I also agree, a wider discussion needs to happen if this is to be 
removed. Unless these is sufficient gain from removing it, it seems like 
we are just, potentially, breaking very very very old applications for 
no good reason.

-Chris.

>
> -Alan.