[issue42030] Drop support for dynload_aix

Benjamin Peterson added the comment: New changeset 1dd6d956a3ddf2cf6d4a69241dba8cd1379421b9 by Kevin Adler in branch 'master': closes bpo-42030: Remove legacy AIX dynload support (GH-22717) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/1dd6d956a3ddf2cf6d4a69241dba8cd1379421b9 --

[issue42030] Drop support for dynload_aix

Kevin added the comment: Ok, I have updated the PR to remove it completely. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing

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Benjamin Peterson added the comment: I think we should just axe it. -- nosy: +benjamin.peterson ___ Python tracker ___ ___

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Kevin added the comment: I've opened a PR to disable support in 3.10 with removal in 3.11 according to the guidelines outline in PEP 11. Given the unlikeliness that anyone is actually still using this feature (and are possibly already broken by a bunch of other things), would it make more

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David Edelsohn added the comment: If Python has been defaulting to dlopen() on AIX systems that support it, there is no reason to maintain the historical, AIX-specific load() support in dynload_aix.c I believe that dlopen() was introduced on AIX in release 4.3. The official end of support

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New submission from Kevin : Python has supported using dynload_shlib (using dlopen) on AIX since https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c19c5a62aef7dce0e8147655b0d2f087965fae75 in 2003. While I have not found a definitive timeline of when AIX gained support for dlopen, I have found