On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > 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.
Victor, if you want to post the "call for support" to Python Insider, let me know off list and I will set you up with access. Doug _______________________________________________ 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
