Doug Hellmann wrote: > > On Apr 19, 2011, at 10:36 AM, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > >> Victor Stinner wrote: >>> 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). >> >> The Python core team is not really representative of the Python >> community users, so I think this needs a different approach: >> >> Instead of simply deprecating OSes without notice to the general >> Python community, how about doing a "call for support" for these >> OSes ? >> >> If that doesn't turn up maintainers, then we can take the PEP 11 >> route. > > Victor, if you want to post the "call for support" to Python Insider, let me > know off list and I will set you up with access.
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