Re: Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Time to retire Windows XP buildfarm host?
Date: 2016-12-05 16:17:47
Message-ID: 17385.1480954667@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> writes:
> Windows XP has been past end of life for quite some time. Nevertheless I
> have kept my instance running with three buildfarm members: frogmouth,
> currawong and brolga. Howeever, a recent commit (apparently fa2fa99, but
> I'm not 100% sure) started causing a compiler segmentation fault on
> frogmouth, the mingw/gcc-4.5.0 animal running on this machine.
> ...
> Does anyone have any strong opinion in favor of keeping any of these
> animals running?

Hm, a look through our commit logs finds multiple mentions of each of
these animals as having been the only one showing a particular portability
issue. So I'm worried about loss of portability coverage. Are you sure
that the animals' build options and choices of toolchains are replicated
elsewhere?

regards, tom lane

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