| From: | Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> |
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| To: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: remove dead ports? |
| Date: | 2012-09-13 13:18:43 |
| Message-ID: | 20120913131843.GD12235@tornado.leadboat.com |
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 10:00:51AM +0100, Simon Riggs wrote:
> SGI support for IRIX ends in Dec 2013, following on from
> discontinuation of hardware in 2006/7
> http://www.sgi.com/services/support/irix_mips_support.html
>
> Which means 9.3 will not have an IRIX platform to run on for more than
> a few months after release, so I think we should remove IRIX support
> now.
> Any objections to removing irix support now?
While I wouldn't personally weep for its loss, I think it's premature. The
others Peter Eisentraut removed have been in the ground about a decade longer
than IRIX. In the absence of a specific reason to believe PostgreSQL no
longer works on the platform or a notable maintenance benefit from removing
its platform-specific source code, let's keep it awhile.
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