Re: remove dead ports? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: remove dead ports?
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Msg-id 20120503162117.GH21098@momjian.us
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In response to Re: remove dead ports?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 07:11:47PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On tor, 2012-05-03 at 10:59 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > Having received no replies on "general" from bsdi users considering
> > upgrading to 9.2, I have removed the port.
> 
> I think that was quite premature.  There is no requirement that bsdi
> users need to read pgsql-general, especially if you give them only a 24
> hour notice.  The bsdi port still appears to work, and it doesn't cost
> us anything to maintain it, so I think we should keep it, or at least
> have a longer grace period.

I think I was the only user left;  I have never heard from a BSD/OS user
in the past 5-7 years.  The last official release was in 2003/2004:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD/OS

I rather think I kept it a viable port on my own, and can't anymore.

--  Bruce Momjian  <bruce@momjian.us>        http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB
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