Re: Another Modest Proposal: Platforms

On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:03:16PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > I mean, it took us forever to require Perl 5.8.
> 
> ... and we still make a point of not having a hard requirement for
> that.  If you don't want plperl, you can build from a tarball with
> no perl at all.
> 
> Given the project history, I can't see us turning a dependency we
> just added this week into a hard requirement anytime soon.
> 
> Now having said that, if you define "supported platform" to mean
> "gets tested on the buildfarm", we do require Perl.  And CVS, which
> will soon get replaced by a requirement for Git.  But I'm not going
> to tell someone to get lost if they file a portability bug report
> without having set up a buildfarm animal first.

I agree that "get lost" is not a reasonable first reaction, but as
with platforms like AIX, "It would help us enormously for you to put
up a buildfarm animal with your development environment on it" isn't.

Cheers,
David.
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