Re: Operating systems no longer supported in latest

> On 27 Feb 2017, at 16:22, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 10:25 PM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se <mailto:daniel(at)yesql(dot)se>> wrote:
> > On 26 Feb 2017, at 16:13, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net <mailto: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> <mailto: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.
>
> Ah, ok, fair enough. Didn't consider that unrelated change. As long as we do that, I do agree.

Bumping this old thread for the upcoming 10 release to avoid having a new major
version out which according to /about/ seems to have platform support which is
long gone.

The alternative option to this patch is of course to remove IRIX and Tru64 from
/about/ completely but that might be tricker bikeshed to paint.

cheers ./daniel