Re: Removing interix support

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

On 27/05/2019 15:24, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> Interix was the old way of getting POSIX things working on Windows.
> Nowadays there are other, better ways of doing it.

Not if you're on Windows 7 or older.

> It wasn't a very good POSIX platform.

pointing strings to the shipped binaries yields NetBSD/FreeBSD/OpenBSD
rcs ids :)

> Proposal: we stop claiming interix support and gradually remove it from
> places

Actual OS support for core pkgsrc infrastructure (pkgsrc/mk etc) is
unintrusive.

Shed the patches from packages for Interix, add best wishes to
pkgsrc/bootstrap/README.Interix and retain the pkgsrc platform support
as that's isolated?


Sevan