Suggested improvements for ports

[Mark Linimon]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 06:40:35PM +0100, Guido Falsi wrote:
> I think that too much formalization in the porting rules would harm the 
> system.

That seems to have been the community consensus in the past.

Nevertheless, the PH could use some improvement.  Most of what I've
tried to put in there is "here's what we recommend as the preferred
practice".  There's not much "you can't do this" -- most of that
deals with things that e.g. break INDEX or otherwise wreak havoc.

mcl