Re: removing old ports and architectures

On 2013-10-18 18:24:58 +0200, Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
> On 10/18/2013 02:41 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> wrote:
> >> On 10/17/13 12:45 PM, Robert Haas wrote:
> >>> The attached patch, which I propose to apply relatively soon if nobody
> >>> objects, removes the IRIX port.
> >>
> >> +1
> >
> > Done. And here's a patch for removing the alpha architecture and
> > Tru64 UNIX (aka OSF/1) which runs on that architecture, per discussion
> > upthread. Barring objections, I'll apply this next week.
>
> hmm there are still some operating systems that "officially" support the
> alpha architecture which will likely result in problems for their ports.
> One example is OpenBSD both the current version (5.3) as well as the
> upcoming release do fully support alpha and have binary packages and
> source "ports" for postgresql and afaik they have no intention to stop
> supporting that plattform.

Hm. If you read their status page (which I think you linked to before):
http://openbsd.org/alpha.html you can find stuff like X11 not
working. So I don't see that forcing us to much.
Note also that we already don't support all openbsd platforms.

Greetings,

Andres Freund

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