Re: remove dead ports?

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 12:08:00PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 11:26:32AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> >> Possibly.  What exactly is the difference between the "sco" and
> >> "unixware" ports, anyway?  The one buildfarm member we have running
> >> SCO software (koi) chooses the unixware template.
> 
> > Unixware was based on Unix System Labs System V, Release 4, while SCO
> > was based on a 286 port of SVr2, or something like that.
> 
> Oh, so the "sco" port actually refers to OpenServer?
> 
>     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO_OpenServer
> 
> That page makes it sound like it's more or less as current as Unixware,
> since both had their last updates in 2008/2009 timeframe (and both
> are presumably never going to see another one, with SCO the company
> being dead in all but name).
> 
> The difference from our perspective is that we have a buildfarm member
> running Unixware, whereas it's anybody's guess whether the "sco" port
> still works or not.

Well, absent user feedback, we could use our own 5-year rule and keep
sco and unixware, and remove irix (2006).

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