Victor Stinner wrote: > Hi, > > I asked one year ago if we should drop OS/2 support: Andrew MacIntyre, > our OS/2 maintainer, answered: > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-April/099477.html > > Extract: << The 3.x branch needs quite a bit of work on OS/2 to > deal with Unicode, as OS/2 was one of the earlier OSes with full > multiple language support and IBM developed a unique API. I'm still > struggling to come to terms with this, partly because I myself don't > "need" it. >> > > So one year later, Python 3 does still not support OS/2. > > -- > > About VMS: I don't know if anyone is using Python (2 or 3) on VMS, or if > Python 3 does work on VMS. I bet that it does just not compile :-) > > I don't know anyone using VMS or OS/2. > > -- > > There are 39 #ifdef VMS and 52 #ifdef OS2. We can keep them and wait > until someone work on these OSes to ensure that the test suite pass. But > if nobody cares of these OSes and nobody wants to maintain them, it > would be easier for the maintenance of the Python source code base to > remove specific code. > > Well, not "remove" directly, but plan to remove it using the PEP 11 > procedure (mark OS/2 and VMS as unsupported, and remove the code in > Python 3.4).
The Python core team is not really representative of the Python community users, so I think this needs a different approach: Instead of simply deprecating OSes without notice to the general Python community, how about doing a "call for support" for these OSes ? If that doesn't turn up maintainers, then we can take the PEP 11 route. FWIW: There's still a fan-base out there for OS/2 and its successor eComStation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EComStation http://www.ecomstation.com/ecomstation20.phtml http://www.warpstock.eu/ Same for VMS in form of OpenVMS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS http://h71000.www7.hp.com/index.html?jumpid=/go/openvms http://www.vmspython.org/ -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Apr 19 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com