[Python-Dev] Misc/*-NOTES?

Skip Montanaro skip@pobox.com
Mon, 6 Jan 2003 11:40:50 -0600


    Martin> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
    >> +0 for AIX-NOTES (some stuff there may still be relevant? some people
    >> still have very old systems)

    Martin> What is the oldest AIX release that we need to support? It is
    Martin> probably a bit late for Python 2.3 to add more systems to PEP
    Martin> 11, but I would guess that nobody needs AIX 3 support
    Martin> anymore. 

Okay, so how about this added to PEP11:

    Name:             AIX 3
    Unsupported in:   Python 2.4
    Code removed in:  Python 2.5

?  It's not obvious to a casual observer - me - that there is much
AIX3-specfic code in the source tree.  Pyconfig.h.in has a comment
suggesting _ALL_SOURCE should be definted if running on AIX3, but I don't
see it used anywhere.

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