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From: Dan S. <dan...@gm...> - 2017-01-13 21:27:57
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On 13 January 2017 at 21:59, Julian Seward <js...@ac...> wrote: > > That's not a fair comparison. The Solaris port has a very active > maintainer and (presumably) also has users. Well, given that Mr Irek was part of the Opensolaris community I THINK he was applying sarcasm and a large grain or whole mine of salt to the situation. Also, even that Solaris is now dead, not only per http://www.sunhelp.org/ but by the virtue of Oracle having laid off more than 150 people of the core os team(!!!!!!), there is still Illumos. > By comparison the Tilegx > port has shown no signs of life for a considerable period of time, > despite attempts by more than one person here to contact both maintainers > and users. In my view it is valid to discuss whether we should continue > to have the Tilegx port in the tree. Who exactly was contacted? Oracle never bothered to comment on the Solaris port, yet valgrind has that port. Maybe the wrong people were contacted? Dan |