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-rw-r--r--compiler/commands.nim3
-rw-r--r--compiler/options.nim25
-rw-r--r--doc/koch.rst33
-rw-r--r--koch.nim1
4 files changed, 3 insertions, 59 deletions
diff --git a/compiler/commands.nim b/compiler/commands.nim
index d8d8ae4b7..204baaa16 100644
--- a/compiler/commands.nim
+++ b/compiler/commands.nim
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ import
 
 # but some have deps to imported modules. Yay.
 bootSwitch(usedTinyC, hasTinyCBackend, "-d:tinyc")
-bootSwitch(usedAvoidTimeMachine, noTimeMachine, "-d:avoidTimeMachine")
 bootSwitch(usedNativeStacktrace,
   defined(nativeStackTrace) and nativeStackTraceSupported,
   "-d:nativeStackTrace")
@@ -106,7 +105,7 @@ proc writeVersionInfo(pass: TCmdLinePass) =
     when gitHash.len == 40:
       msgWriteln("git hash: " & gitHash, {msgStdout})
 
-    msgWriteln("active boot switches:" & usedRelease & usedAvoidTimeMachine &
+    msgWriteln("active boot switches:" & usedRelease &
       usedTinyC & usedGnuReadline & usedNativeStacktrace & usedNoCaas &
       usedFFI & usedBoehm & usedMarkAndSweep & usedGenerational & usedGoGC & usedNoGC,
                {msgStdout})
diff --git a/compiler/options.nim b/compiler/options.nim
index f8cb735ae..fe8be5e0c 100644
--- a/compiler/options.nim
+++ b/compiler/options.nim
@@ -17,7 +17,6 @@ const
   hasFFI* = defined(useFFI)
   newScopeForIf* = true
   useCaas* = not defined(noCaas)
-  noTimeMachine* = defined(avoidTimeMachine) and defined(macosx)
   copyrightYear* = "2018"
 
 type                          # please make sure we have under 32 options
@@ -329,28 +328,6 @@ proc toGeneratedFile*(path, ext: string): string =
   result = joinPath([getNimcacheDir(), changeFileExt(tail, ext)])
   #echo "toGeneratedFile(", path, ", ", ext, ") = ", result
 
-when noTimeMachine:
-  var alreadyExcludedDirs = initSet[string]()
-  proc excludeDirFromTimeMachine(dir: string) {.raises: [].} =
-    ## Calls a macosx command on the directory to exclude it from backups.
-    ##
-    ## The macosx tmutil command is invoked to mark the specified path as an
-    ## item to be excluded from time machine backups. If a path already exists
-    ## with files before excluding it, newer files won't be added to the
-    ## directory, but previous files won't be removed from the backup until the
-    ## user deletes that directory.
-    ##
-    ## The whole proc is optional and will ignore all kinds of errors. The only
-    ## way to be sure that it works is to call ``tmutil isexcluded path``.
-    if alreadyExcludedDirs.contains(dir): return
-    alreadyExcludedDirs.incl(dir)
-    try:
-      var p = startProcess("/usr/bin/tmutil", args = ["addexclusion", dir])
-      discard p.waitForExit
-      p.close
-    except Exception:
-      discard
-
 proc completeGeneratedFilePath*(f: string, createSubDir: bool = true): string =
   var (head, tail) = splitPath(f)
   #if len(head) > 0: head = removeTrailingDirSep(shortenDir(head & dirSep))
@@ -358,8 +335,6 @@ proc completeGeneratedFilePath*(f: string, createSubDir: bool = true): string =
   if createSubDir:
     try:
       createDir(subdir)
-      when noTimeMachine:
-        excludeDirFromTimeMachine(subdir)
     except OSError:
       writeLine(stdout, "cannot create directory: " & subdir)
       quit(1)
diff --git a/doc/koch.rst b/doc/koch.rst
index ff62b8186..35cf9d8b6 100644
--- a/doc/koch.rst
+++ b/doc/koch.rst
@@ -35,32 +35,8 @@ options:
   By default a debug version is created, passing this option will
   force a release build, which is much faster and should be preferred
   unless you are debugging the compiler.
--d:useGnuReadline
-  Includes the `rdstdin module <rdstdin.html>`_ for `interactive
-  mode <nimc.html#nim-interactive-mode>`_ (aka ``nim i``).
-  This is not needed on Windows. On other platforms this may
-  incorporate the GNU readline library.
--d:nativeStacktrace
-  Use native stack traces (only for Mac OS X or Linux).
--d:avoidTimeMachine
-  Only for Mac OS X, activating this switch will force excluding
-  the generated ``nimcache`` directories from Time Machine backups.
-  By default ``nimcache`` directories will be included in backups,
-  and just for the Nim compiler itself it means backing up 20MB
-  of generated files each time you update the compiler. Using this
-  option will make the compiler invoke the `tmutil
-  <https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/Manpages/man8/tmutil.8.html>`_
-  command on all ``nimcache`` directories, setting their backup
-  exclusion bit.
-
-  You can use the following command to locate all ``nimcache``
-  directories and check their backup exclusion bit::
-
-    $ find . -type d -name nimcache -exec tmutil isexcluded \{\} \;
---gc:refc|v2|markAndSweep|boehm|go|none
-  Selects which garbage collection strategy to use for the compiler
-  and generated code. See the `Nim's Garbage Collector <gc.html>`_
-  documentation for more information.
+-d:useLinenoise
+  Use the linenoise library for interactive mode (not needed on Windows).
 
 After compilation is finished you will hopefully end up with the nim
 compiler in the ``bin`` directory. You can add Nim's ``bin`` directory to
@@ -104,8 +80,3 @@ be rerun in serial fashion so that meaninful error output can be gathered for
 inspection. The ``--parallelBuild:n`` switch or configuration option can be
 used to force a specific number of parallel jobs or run everything serially
 from the start (``n == 1``).
-
-zip command
------------
-
-The `zip`:idx: command builds the installation ZIP package.
diff --git a/koch.nim b/koch.nim
index 7a75ebf71..4f85c6583 100644
--- a/koch.nim
+++ b/koch.nim
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ Boot options:
   -d:release               produce a release version of the compiler
   -d:useLinenoise          use the linenoise library for interactive mode
                            (not needed on Windows)
-  -d:avoidTimeMachine      only for Mac OS X, excludes nimcache dir from backups
 
 Commands for core developers:
   web [options]            generates the website and the full documentation