| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: remove dead ports? |
| Date: | 2012-05-04 17:45:10 |
| Message-ID: | 1336153510.9886.2.camel@vanquo.pezone.net |
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On tor, 2012-05-03 at 17:39 +0100, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> On 3 May 2012 17:21, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> wrote:
> > I think I was the only user left; I have never heard from a BSD/OS user
> > in the past 5-7 years.
>
> I'm inclined to agree with Bruce. While it's not reasonable to assume
> that the lack of a BSD/OS user complaining on -general indicates that
> there are none, it's also not reasonable for them to expect us to
> support their operating system for 8 years after the original
> proprietary vendor. Better to not support BSD/OS than to supply a port
> that no one really has any confidence in. It's not as if we've ceased
> support in release branches.
I'm not so much opposed to removing the port. I am more concerned about
the manner in which it was done. The other ports I removed were known
to not work anyway, for years, and there were at least several days of
discussion. The bsdi case was removing a working port with less than 24
hours notice.
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