[New-bugs-announce] [issue11863] Enforce PEP 11 - remove support for legacy systems

[Antoine Pitrou]

New submission from Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr>:

PEP 11 calls for removing support for the following systems in 3.3:

    Name:             Systems using Mach C Threads
    Unsupported in:   Python 3.2
    Code removed in:  Python 3.3

    Name:             SunOS lightweight processes (LWP)
    Unsupported in:   Python 3.2
    Code removed in:  Python 3.3

    Name:             Systems using --with-pth (GNU pth threads)
    Unsupported in:   Python 3.2
    Code removed in:  Python 3.3

    Name:             Systems using Irix threads
    Unsupported in:   Python 3.2
    Code removed in:  Python 3.3

    Name:             OSF* systems (issue 8606)
    Unsupported in:   Python 3.2 
    Code removed in:  Python 3.3

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components: Build, Interpreter Core
keywords: easy
messages: 133944
nosy: pitrou
priority: normal
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: Enforce PEP 11 - remove support for legacy systems
type: feature request
versions: Python 3.3

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