[Python-Dev] Should we drop active support of OSF/1?

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Mon Apr 26 22:00:24 CEST 2010


> Maybe we can drop OSF/1 safely supporting Tru64 yet, but we don't have
> any buildbot running any of this systems...

Dropping support is fine with me, in the long term. If PEP 11 is truly
followed, we should deprecate support in one version, and drop it in the
next one. This would mean we add a easy-to-remove configure error in
3.2, and remove the support in 3.3.

Regards,
Martin


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