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

From Stefan Kaltenbrunner
Subject Re: remove dead ports?
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Msg-id 4F96F248.2050802@kaltenbrunner.cc
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In response to remove dead ports?  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
List pgsql-hackers
On 04/24/2012 08:29 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> I propose that we remove support for the following OS ports from our
> source tree.  They are totally dead, definitely don't work, and/or
> probably no one remembers what they even were.  The code just bit rots
> and is in the way of future improvements.
> 
> * Dead/remove:
> 
> dgux
> nextstep
> sunos4
> svr4
> ultrix4
> univel

+1

> 
> * Dubious, but keep for now:
> 
> bsdi
> irix
> osf
> sco

I'm pretty sure I have seen at least semi recent reports of users on at
least irix and sco, for the rest of them I think bruce recently stopped
using bsdi so the only ever known user of that platform is gone...


Stefan


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