[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce removal of interactive setup script

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu,  6 Aug 2020 16:51:50 +0200
Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net> wrote:

> Environment configuration is the responsibility of distributions
> or upper-level frameworks.
> DPDK focus on documenting the requirements and some recommendations.
> If some specific parts are complex, they can deserve some scripts.
> 
> Maintaining a good adaptative deployment setup is a project by itself.
> Anyway this script was interactive, useful only for experimenters.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> ---
> v2: suggest replacing with more specific scripts
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 1a07f88172..fb405a09ac 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -232,3 +232,8 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
>    In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
>    scripts with Python 2.
> +
> +* dpdk-setup.sh: This old script relies on deprecated stuff, and especially
> +  ``make``. Given environments are too much variables for such a simple script,
> +  it will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
> +  Some useful parts may be converted into specific scripts.

Do you want to add a nag at startup of dpdk-setup.sh in 20.08?
Users don't always read the deprecation notices.