[Python-Dev] Should we drop active support of OSF/1?

[Jesus Cea]

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On 26/04/10 22:00, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
>> Maybe we can drop OSF/1 safely supporting Tru64 yet, but we don't have
>> any buildbot running any of this systems...
> 
> Dropping support is fine with me, in the long term. If PEP 11 is truly
> followed, we should deprecate support in one version, and drop it in the
> next one. This would mean we add a easy-to-remove configure error in
> 3.2, and remove the support in 3.3.

Would be enough to raise an "ERROR" at configure time if OSF test is
positive?. To delete that intentional "ERROR" would be trivial.

In 3.3 I would remove the configure tests and the "#if" conditional
compilation related to them.

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