Re: Removing Interix support?

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2025 at 10:15:58AM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost> writes:
> 
> > Interix was declared obsolete in 2011, and has been removed from
> > Windows 8.
> >
> > I suggest removing any remaining Interix support from pkgsrc.
> 
> In general, while I am intellectually sympathetic to retrocomputing, I
> suspect that a lot of "supported platforms" don't work and have zero
> actual people that care about them.  I realize that if it's just a
> mk/platform/foo.mk and boostrap/README.foo it's not that much cruft, but
> a quick grep shows a bunch of conditionals.
> 
> Saying "pkgsrc supports 21 platforms" has always seemed a bit of a
> stretch, so removing one that doesn't work and that nobody can use seems
> good.

Thanks for the feedback.

> Beyond mk/platform/Interix.mk and bootstrap/{bootstrap,README.Interix},
> I see a bunch of conditionals in mk and a smattering of
> conditionals/comments elsewhere.  I am guessing you mean to remove
> references in mk and bootstrap, and perhaps to prune others, perhaps
> leaving those to be gc'd as they are touched, perhaps spending time to
> find/rm.

Yes, I'd grep for it and remove the conditionals in packages too,
even patches if we have any.
 Thomas