Re: FAQs and Port Status

Removed.

//Magnus

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-www-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:54 PM
> To: Simon Riggs
> Cc: PostgreSQL www
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-www] FAQs and Port Status
>
>
> Oh, and would someone remove the QNX faq mention on this web page:
>
>     http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/
>
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> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > The various ports and FAQs are fairly confusing, I note.
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq/
> >
> > - AIX FAQ could do with some work, its long with lots of As and not
> > many Qs, so its hard to understand what its telling you. But it
> > clearly works, judging by the build farm. Sorry to criticise when
> > there's such a wealth of detail there.
> >
> > - HP/UX FAQ mentions rel 7.3 only and there's no build farm result,
> > but I'm wondering whether some eagle-eyed hacker still uses it, or
> > whether this port has fallen into disuse?
> >
> > - IRIX FAQ mentions rel 7.2, which we really ought to
> mention is not
> > supported anymore in the FAQ, or remove it.
> >
> > - MINGW/Windows FAQ claims to be the FAQ for "Native
> Win32", which is
> > interesting because the Windows FAQ says that as well...
> >
> > - QNX FAQ doesn't exist at all; real-time is a thing of the past
> > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs.FAQ_QNX4.html
> >
> > - SCO FAQ's title is FAQ for 7.3, then starts with
> explaining how 8.0
> > works with UnixWare. I see warthog running HEAD on UnixWare
> nicely, so
> > there's some updating required there.
> >
> > - Solaris FAQ - I found some DTrace docs... cool
> >
> > It would be just great if we could have a link from the
> FAQ/Platform
> > area to the buildfarm, with an encouragement to see for themselves
> > whether their desired release works well on their chosen platform.
> > All that grand work should be shouted about...
> >
> > Many people's questions will be does it work with Linux
> Flavour X, so
> > we should send them straight to the buildfarm to answer
> their own query.
> >
> > It would be good if the FAQ page could be renamed "FAQ and
> Port Status"
> >
> > --
> >   Simon Riggs
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