Re: removing old ports and architectures

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Stefan Kaltenbrunner
<stefan(at)kaltenbrunner(dot)cc> wrote:
> On 10/16/2013 07:04 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Andres Freund <andres(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>>> I think we should remove support the following ports:
>>> - IRIX
>>> - UnixWare
>>> - Tru64
>>
>> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX, IRIX has been
>> officially retired. The last release of IRIX was in 2006 and support
>> will end in December of 2013. Therefore, it will be unsupported by
>> the time PostgreSQL 9.4 is released.
>>
>> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare, UnixWare is not
>> dead, although there have been no new releases in 5 years.
>>
>> According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64_UNIX, Tru64 has been
>> officially retired. Support ended in December, 2012. This seems safe
>> to remove.
>>
>> So I vote for removing IRIX and Tru64 immediately, but I'm a little
>> more hesitant about shooting UnixWare, since it's technically still
>> supported.
>>
>>> Neither of those are relevant.
>
> agreed

The attached patch, which I propose to apply relatively soon if nobody
objects, removes the IRIX port.

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