[issue43179] Remove s390 support

Christian Heimes added the comment: > Does AIX support the s390 architecture? The platform triplet is s390-linux-gnu, not AIX. > Because one user was surprised by a few lines in configure.ac, the conclusion > is to remove support for that architecture? You are misinterpreting my words. My

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz added the comment: > I opened this ticket after a user told me that they grepped the source code > of Python, found the string "s390", and concluded that s390 is still > supported by us. Because one user was surprised by a few lines in configure.ac, the conclusion

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

STINNER Victor added the comment: Does AIX support the s390 architecture? -- nosy: +David.Edelsohn, aixto...@gmail.com ___ Python tracker ___

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I propose to remove check for __s390__ from configure.ac and configure. I don't see a big benefit of removing a few lines of configure.ac. It's not like it's a big maintenance burden. > It's about setting expectations. For some users, the presence of a

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

Christian Heimes added the comment: > That's an argument I have personally never heard before and I have been > dealing with a lot of architecture support in many packages. I opened this ticket after a user told me that they grepped the source code of Python, found the string "s390", and

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz added the comment: That's an argument I have personally never heard before and I have been dealing with a lot of architecture support in many packages. FWIW, lots of upstream projects have targets which are officially supported and others which are there but not

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

Christian Heimes added the comment: It's about setting expectations. For some users, the presence of a platform triplet implies support for a platform. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz added the comment: And, FWIW, I generally don't quite understand what the problem with old triplet definitions in configure.ac are. I assume they don't hurt anyone, do they? You never know what usecases your users have and as long as a code snippet doesn't

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz added the comment: I'm a Debian Developer and maintainer for multiple Debian Ports architectures. Please don't remove support for Alpha, HPPA, m68k, ia64, PowerPC, SuperH, SPARC as we're still maintaining these in Debian. Here are the latest build results for

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

Change by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue43179] Remove s390 support

New submission from Christian Heimes : configure.ac contains triplet definitions for s390 and s390x mainframes. While s390x (Linux on IBM Z) is still widely supported, s390 is not. s390 was released in 1990 and discontinued in 1998, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/390 Ariadne