As far as I am aware, we already dropped support for AIX 5.3<=. See
https://bugs.python.org/issue40680 for details.
On 16.10.2020 23:15, Kevin Adler wrote:
Python has supported using dynload_shlib (using dlopen) on AIX since
https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c19c5a62aef7dce0e8147655b0d2f087965fae75
in 2003. This is also about the time that AIX 4.3 went out of support, which
is believed to be the AIX release that added support for dlopen. Considering it
is now 20ish years later and in this time, every supported AIX release has had
dlopen support, I suspect nobody has used or tested this code path in quite
some time. I propose removing this support under PEP 11.
For reference, I opened https://bugs.python.org/issue42030 and changes were
merged in https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/22717. I opened a PR to update
PEP 11 in https://github.com/python/peps/issues/1653, but was told this needed
discussion here. Sorry if this didn't quite follow the process correctly, I
thought I had things in the right order, but I guess not. Also apologies if
this is a duplicate, but my first message appears to have been lost/eaten
(possibly a first-time moderation queue?).
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