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On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 03:31:03PM -0000, Father Chrysostomos wrote: > Nicholas Clark wrote: > > In the core distribution there are quite a few "ports" directories. > > > > Most of them are suffering bad bitrot. > > Does that necessarily mean no-one is using them? If they don't compile, then no-one is using them. I suspect that most won't compile any more. I suspect that many haven't compiled in at least 5 years. By which I mean that if anyone is using Perl on these platforms, then they are using a Perl of similar age to the platform. I'm not thinking of all the ports directories here. Just operating systems such as * BeOS (no release in nearly 10 years, superseded by Haiku), * EPOC (superseded by Symbian, which in turn...), * MPE/iX (maybe)* * djgpp [strictly, this is a port to DOS] * UTS [whose website is gone][fun platform, I think it was 1s complement] * VM/ESA** and potentially the NetWare directory if we're able to help NormW fold back into the core his approach to building for NetWare. And I was meaning that we don't *ship* those ports directories anymore. We point to where they can be found in git, if someone wants to resurrect them. Nicholas Clark * The discontinuance of the product line was announced in late 2001 with support from HP terminating at the end of 2010. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Multi-Programming_Executive ** VM/ESA V2.R4 ended service June 2003. http://www.vm.ibm.com/vm240/Thread Previous | Thread Next