Removing support for little used platforms
I'm going to add error messages for all platforms that become unsupported in Python 2.3 really soon. If you have any corrections to the list in PEP 11, please let me know. Regards, Martin
I'm going to add error messages for all platforms that become unsupported in Python 2.3 really soon. If you have any corrections to the list in PEP 11, please let me know.
Are any of those platforms listed here? http://www.python.org/download/download_other.html Maybe a note on the website should be made, asking for volunteers to maintain specific platforms? --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
Are any of those platforms listed here?
No (unless some of these platforms rely on the unsupported Posix threads drafts, which I doubt).
Maybe a note on the website should be made, asking for volunteers to maintain specific platforms?
I'd really suggest to follow the strategy of PEP 11 here: Trying to build Python on one of these systems produces a build error, which can be easily removed by uncommenting it. People can then decide to not build Python, or offer to volunteer as maintainers for the platform. If nobody volunteers, the code will be removed in Python 2.4. I believe this is more effective than posting a note on the website. Regards, Martin
On Tue, Nov 26, 2002, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
I'd really suggest to follow the strategy of PEP 11 here: Trying to build Python on one of these systems produces a build error, which can be easily removed by uncommenting it. People can then decide to not build Python, or offer to volunteer as maintainers for the platform.
If nobody volunteers, the code will be removed in Python 2.4.
I believe this is more effective than posting a note on the website.
+1 (speaking as one webmaster, but not speaking for all webmasters) -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra
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