<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/29/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">"Martin v. Löwis"</b> <<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de">martin@v.loewis.de</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brett Cannon schrieb:<br>> I originally posted this list to python-3000 since I figured we could<br>> be more aggressive with Py3K, but Guido said I should move it over<br>> here and just be aggressive in 2.6.<br>
<br>Please follow PEP 11 in doing so. This means you cannot remove the code<br>in Python 2.6, only break the build with an error message. Actual<br>removal would be deferred to 2.7.</blockquote><div><br>I wasn't planning on skipping the procedures in PEP 11. I just wanted to get the list of possible platforms to eliminate out there for people to comment on.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> So, here are the platforms I figured we should drop:<br>><br>> * AtheOS
<br>> * BeOS<br><br>In both cases, the last maintainer should be contacted before the<br>platform is unsupported.</blockquote><div><br>I guess I can go off the emails listed in README and Misc/BeOS-NOTES, although I would hope that any maintainer would watch python-dev in some fashion. Is there an official list of maintainers? If not perhaps there should be a PEP listing who maintains what platforms.
<br> </div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> I had SunoS 5 but Ronald Oussoren said that is actually Solaris<br>> through version 9, so I took that off.
<br><br>It's actually *all* Solaris versions (up to 11).<br>Dropping support for 5.6 (Solaris 2.6) and earlier may be<br>an option; we have some special-cased code for 5.6.</blockquote><div><br>OK. I don't have a Solaris box so someone else might need to help with that.
<br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Several people have questioned AtheOS, but considering the site for<br>> the OS has not been updated since 2002 and it was a niche OS to begin
<br>> with I doubt we really need the support.<br><br>IMO, that should really depend on active maintenance. Somebody should<br>confirm that Python 2.5 still compiles out of the box on that system,<br>and, if not, volunteer to fix it. If nobody does, we can remove the
<br>code in 2.7.</blockquote><div><br>Yep. Guess that goes along with contacting the maintainers. <br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> And I listed FreeBSD 2 as a drop since FreeBSD 3 seemed to have been<br>> released in 1999. But if most users have upgraded by now (release 6<br>> is the most current) then we could consider dropping 3 as well.
<br><br>This really should use the PEP 11 procedure: let configure fail<br>(early) on the system, and then remove support if nobody complains<br>(in 2.7 and 3k).</blockquote><div><br>Sounds reasonable. Hopefully it would catch people early in the alpha stage to deal with this.
<br></div><br>-Brett</div>