Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Ok, I added OS/2 and VMS to the PEP 11. I also opened any issue to > remember that I should do something to raise an error on build. For OS/2, I propose to syntactically break the makefile; anybody trying to build it should then run into that, and a) can easily overcome the limitation (probably

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-25 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 23:21 +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" a écrit : > > 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). > > I think the PEP 11 procedure is just right for this. It *is* a call

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-24 Thread Jesus Cea
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 19/04/11 22:48, Antoine Pitrou wrote: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:20:13 -0400 > Doug Hellmann wrote: >> >> 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. > > Doesn't i

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-20 Thread Lennart Regebro
Various people wrote: > So please go ahead and add them to PEP 11. > 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. > Doesn't it have more chances of succeeding if posted to comp.lang.python, > simply? I say "all of the a

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> 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). I think the PEP 11 procedure is just right for this. It *is* a call for maintainers, so if any user is interested in ongoing support, they shou

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Antoine Pitrou
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:20:13 -0400 Doug Hellmann wrote: > > 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. Doesn't it have more chances of succeeding if posted to comp.lang.python, simply? Regards Antoine.

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mardi 19 avril 2011 à 15:20 -0400, Doug Hellmann a écrit : > > 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 abou

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
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 >

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Doug Hellmann
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

Re: [Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
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

[Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 and VMS support?

2011-04-19 Thread Victor Stinner
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