Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-25 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 23:21 +0200, Martin v. Löwis a écrit : 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). I think the PEP 11 procedure is just right for this. It *is* a call for

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Ok, I added OS/2 and VMS to the PEP 11. I also opened any issue to remember that I should do something to raise an error on build. For OS/2, I propose to syntactically break the makefile; anybody trying to build it should then run into that, and a) can easily overcome the limitation (probably

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-24 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/11 22:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:20:13 -0400 Doug Hellmann doug.hellm...@gmail.com wrote: 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.

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
Various people wrote: So please go ahead and add them to PEP 11. 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. Doesn't it have more chances of succeeding if posted to comp.lang.python, simply? I say all of the above.

[Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Stinner
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Doug Hellmann
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
Doug Hellmann wrote: 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 15:20 -0400, Doug Hellmann a écrit : 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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:20:13 -0400 Doug Hellmann doug.hellm...@gmail.com wrote: 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. Doesn't it have more chances of succeeding if posted to comp.lang.python, simply?

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
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). I think the PEP 11 procedure is just right for this. It *is* a call for maintainers, so if any user is interested in ongoing support, they should