Hi, I asked one year ago if we should drop OS/2 support: Andrew MacIntyre, our OS/2 maintainer, answered: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-April/099477.html
Extract: << The 3.x branch needs quite a bit of work on OS/2 to deal with Unicode, as OS/2 was one of the earlier OSes with full multiple language support and IBM developed a unique API. I'm still struggling to come to terms with this, partly because I myself don't "need" it. >> So one year later, Python 3 does still not support OS/2. -- About VMS: I don't know if anyone is using Python (2 or 3) on VMS, or if Python 3 does work on VMS. I bet that it does just not compile :-) I don't know anyone using VMS or OS/2. -- There are 39 #ifdef VMS and 52 #ifdef OS2. We can keep them and wait until someone work on these OSes to ensure that the test suite pass. But if nobody cares of these OSes and nobody wants to maintain them, it would be easier for the maintenance of the Python source code base to remove specific code. Well, not "remove" directly, but plan to remove it using the PEP 11 procedure (mark OS/2 and VMS as unsupported, and remove the code in Python 3.4). Victor _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
