Re: De-support SCO OpenServer/SCO UnixWare?

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 11:03 AM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Currently, we have the following OS-specific configure templates in
> src/template:
>
> aix
> cygwin
> darwin
> freebsd
> hpux
> linux
> netbsd
> openbsd
> sco
> solaris
> unixware
> win32
>
> There is at least one active buildfarm critter testing each of these
> except "sco" and "unixware". I can't find any evidence in the buildfarm
> database that we've *ever* had a SCO OpenServer buildfarm member. There
> were a couple of UnixWare members, but the last one was last heard from
> on 2012-10-30 (around when 9.2 was released). Mentions of these platforms
> in the commit logs thin out to about nothing after 2008.
>
> I think we should stop supporting those two platforms; to wit, we should
> remove those template files and remove all supporting code and
> documentation references to those platforms. We can always put that stuff
> back if someone shows up who's got enough interest to run a buildfarm
> member. But right now I'd say our support for those platforms is likely
> to be hopelessly bit-rotted anyway, and it's more than likely that no one
> cares.

It looks like the official upgrade path for both is to the new
OpenServer 10 from SCO's acquirers:

http://xinuos.com/xinuos/news/247-news-xinuos-channel-buzz-openserver-10
http://www.xinuos.com/menu-products/openserver-10

It seems they are using virtualisation to help people migrate from the
ancient System V-based releases, but OpenServer 10 is a FreeBSD
derivative and has "support for the FreeBSD® Ports and Packages
Collection". So we already support that without doing anything at
all.

The System V-based SCO operating systems are museum pieces and it
wouldn't make any sense for anyone to think about running PostgreSQL
10 on them. +1 for dropping support.

--
Thomas Munro
http://www.enterprisedb.com