Re: Operating systems no longer supported in latest

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:33 AM, Daniel Gustafsson <daniel(at)yesql(dot)se> wrote:

> > 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.

I looked at committing this with the release, but without adding a good
platform list to the matrix first, it really doesn't work. I agree with
Magnus that we should probably try to avoid updating /about in this way...
can you compile a platform list along with the supported versions for me to
add?

Thanks.

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