[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: I agree, as long as there are other buildbots for macOS (and there appear to be buildbots for macOS 10.12 and 10.13). It would be nice to have buildbots running the OS releases for which installers are build (10.6 and 10.9), but

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

Yury Selivanov added the comment: TBH I don't think we need to care about OS X Tiger. I mean Apple itself doesn't care about it anymore, the last release was 10 years ago. How about we drop its buildbot? -- nosy: +yselivanov

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

Ned Deily added the comment: With the recent changes (fd9a4bd16587) in Issue28092 to make the dtrace stubs static inline, 3.6 once again compiles and links with the Xcode 2.5 gcc4.0 on Mac OS X 10.4. We can look at this again for 3.7. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: ->

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

STINNER Victor added the comment: @Ned Deily: Ping? -- components: +Macintosh nosy: +ronaldoussoren ___ Python tracker ___

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

Changes by Ned Deily : -- assignee: -> ned.deily ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

STINNER Victor added the comment: The "x86 Tiger 3.6" and "x86 Tiger 3.x" buildbots currently fail to compile Python: * http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Tiger%203.6 * http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Tiger%203.x -- ___

[issue28099] Drop Mac OS X Tiger support in Python 3.6

New submission from STINNER Victor: Mac OS X Tiger was released in 2004: 12 years ago, 3 years after Windows XP. The Tiger buildbot has many issues, it uses an old compiler (GCC 4.0) and an old OpenSSL version. Python 3.6 now requires ISO C99 support, whereas Tiger GCC 4.0 lacks support for