Re: Operating systems no longer supported in latest

> On 26 Feb 2017, at 16:13, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>> wrote:
> On about/ we list SGI IRIX and Tru64 as operating systems PostgreSQL runs on
> which while true, is a bit misleading since neither is supported in the latest
> versions. IRIX support was retired in 9.4 with ea91a6be89575 and Tru64 in 9.5
> with a6d488cb538c8.
>
> I propose linking the entries to the featurematrix platform group (as in
> attached patch) and adding features for IRIX and Tru64 support for the
> appropriate versions to clarify.
>
> That doesn't work very well in combination with the fact that we by default hide the features with no differences -- there is nothing listed under platforms at all in the default view.

Assuming the default shown set of versions are the ones currently supported (as
it is now), entries for IRIX and Tru64 would have changes and thus would be
shown. Once either of these is no longer supported in a supported version, I
would expect us to drop it from the about/ page as well which handles the
problem of hiding features without differences.

> I also think it's kind of weird to link some OSes there but not others. I think it'd look better with a general list of the available platforms and then a separate sentence linking to the feature matrix for more details, or something like that?

That sounds like a good variation on the above.

cheers ./daniel