[Python-Dev] Tru64 support

[Victor Stinner]

2012/9/4 Andrew Svetlov <andrew.svetlov at gmail.com>:
> I don't see Tru64 in list of available buildbots.

Nope, there is no Tru64 buildbot.

> Do we need to care about this platform? And how to make sure what
> existing code works fine for that?

I don't know this OS. According to Wikipedia, it's a closed source OS
which only runs on DEC Alpha CPU. It doesn't look to be maintained:
only bugs are fixed since 2010.

> Or maybe we can drop support for Tru64 as well as we already does it
> for, say, VMS?

See the PEP 11 for unsupported platforms.
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#no-longer-supported-platforms

"Name: VMS
Unsupported in: Python 3.3
Code removed in: Python 3.4"

Victor