Re: Solaris compiler status

From: Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Solaris compiler status
Date: 2025-09-03 21:56:22
Message-ID: CA+hUKGLTXVRLv9X_O5rrwVXVcCLn8fNjG7K-fg64ohGXdUA7ow@mail.gmail.com
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On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 2:42 AM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> writes:
> > On 3 Sep 2025, at 07:47, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
> >> So, can we declare that we don't support this compiler anymore?
> >> (gcc is readily available and seems to work alright, so I'm not saying the OS is no longer viable.)
>
> > +1 based on the findings above.
>
> +1, given the lack of complaints it certainly appears that
> nobody cares.

+1.

Last release 2017, and development had ended by 2020 according to a
well known Sun/Oracle engineer:

https://forums.oracle.com/ords/apexds/post/is-developer-studio-abandoned-and-discontinued-by-oracle-3285

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