Hi -
I would like to get rid of the portable branch. [...]
What is the argument against getting rid of the portable branch by merging it into master?
Nobody really should be using it unless they are using glibc <= 2.5, kernel <= 2.6.18 or gcc < 4.4. Hopefully by now those are really ancient memory. [...]
(e.g. RHEL5 is supported till 2020.)
- FChE