I agree, remove Solaris support. Nobody willing to contribute seems interested.
-gps -- blame half the typos on my phone. On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 2:50 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I propose to drop the Solaris support in Python to reduce the Python > maintenance burden: > > https://bugs.python.org/issue42173 > > I wrote a draft PR to show how much code could be removed (around 700 > lines in 65 files): > > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/23002/files > > In 2016, I asked if we still wanted to maintain the Solaris support in > Python, because Solaris buildbots were failing for longer than 6 > months and nobody was able to fix them. It was requested to find a > core developer volunteer to fix Solaris issues and to set up a Solaris > buildbot. > > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/thread/NOT2RORSNX72ZLUHK2UUGBD4GTPNKBUS/#NOT2RORSNX72ZLUHK2UUGBD4GTPNKBUS > > Four years later, nothing has happened. Moreover, in 2018, Oracle laid > off the Solaris development engineering staff. There are around 25 > open Python bugs specific to Solaris. > > I see 3 options: > > * Current best effort support (no change): changes only happen if a > core dev volunteers to review and merge a change written by a > contributor. > > * Schedule the removal in 2 Python releases (Python 3.12) and start to > announce that Solaris support is going to be removed > > * Remove the Solaris code right now (my proposition): Solaris code > will have to be maintained outside the official Python code base, as > "downstream patches" > > > Solaris has a few specific features visible at the Python level: > select.devpoll, os.stat().st_fstype and stat.S_ISDOOR(). > > While it's unclear to me if Oracle still actively maintains Solaris > (latest release in 2018, no major update since 2018), Illumos and > OpenSolaris (variants or "forks") still seem to be active. > > In 2019, a Solaris blog post explains that Solaris 11.4 still uses > Python 2.7 but plans to migrate to Python 3, and Python 3.4 is also > available. These two Python versions are no longer supported. > > https://blogs.oracle.com/solaris/future-of-python-on-solaris > > The question is if the Python project has to maintain the Solaris > specific code or if this code should now be maintained outside Python. > > What do you think? Should we wait 5 more years? Should we expect a > company will offer to maintain the Solaris support? Is there a > motivated core developer to fix Solaris issue? As I wrote, nothing has > happened in the last 4 years... > > Victor > -- > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/VDD7NMEDFXMOP4S74GEYJUHJRJPK2UR3/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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