This PR has been open for nearly 3 months without any comment. Can I please get someone to review it?
PR link: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/10437
Bug report: https://bugs.python.org/issue35198
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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. Con
Interesting. Given that, shouldn't PEP 11 be updated with that change? Seems to
me that PEP 11 only documents platforms with *official support*, so is AIX
officially supported? The comment in the issue would indicate it is not
officially supported, but it _is_ listed here:
https://pythondev.rea
Brett Cannon wrote:
> > AIX is not officially supported. We have tried to be helpful and add/remove
> things over the years related to AIX (we used to have an external
> contributor who actively tried to keep AIX supported), but we don't
> guarantee things work since there is no core dev available
Brett Cannon wrote:
> > Updated how? AIX is not mentioned in that PEP anywhere, so I'm not quite
> sure what update you're suggesting.
I'm referring to
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#unsupporting-platforms.
"If a certain platform that currently has special code in CPython is deemed to
Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2020 at 4:43 PM Kevin Adler kad...@linux.vnet.ibm.com
> wrote:
> > Should this list be updated to mention that AIX 5.3 and below are no
> > longer supported?
> > Only if we are going to rip out all AIX-related code.
Ok. Looking throug
