On 23.04.2020 15:56, Greg Troxel wrote:
>> There are more candidates with no users (or very infrequent people
>> trying to be users) that could be dropped:
>>
>> - MirBSD,
>> - OSF/1 (we used to get some reports that pkgsrc doesn't bootstrap),
>> - QNX (as far as I know there is no native toolchain),
>> - Bitrig (formally abandoned project),
>> - HP-UX (GDB dropped support for it 5 years ago!),
>> - Interix,
>> - AIX (I only saw once someone trying to use pkgsrc on it, Perl was
>> unbuildable for it),
>> - BSD/OS
>
>
> I did not make a deletion proposal for IRIX. I was suggesting that far
> less significant step of dropping a patch that caused problems for other
> platforms, on the basis that the total effort/problems in the pkgsrc
> world would be less.
>
>
> I did list platforms by active/not active, as a guide for people having
> to make the decision whether to spend time and effort to keep
> platform-specific accomodations.
>
>
> If there are platforms to remove (cvs rm mk/platform/foo.mk), I think it
> would be good to list them in the next announcement, after floating it
> on pkgsrc-users, and give it a while. For now, I'm inclined to see if
> anyone speaks up about the 'probably not in use' platforms.
>
I would add a big WARNING in ./bootstrap.sh and force usage of an extra
command option (like --skip-endangered) to pass the build on these
platforms. If nobody will step in 24 months, there is nobody that cares
enough.
At the risk of sending a terse, opinionated email; do not do this. It is undesirable.
Thanks,
Alistair