[Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support?

[Nick Coghlan]

Victor Stinner wrote:
> If we support OS/2, we need a buildbot.

As Andrew said, there are 2 levels of support - the "if we break it,
we'll fix it" level where our buildbots live, and the "we won't go out
of our way to break it, but it may degenerate as other things change (or
simply miss out on some new features)" level.

Eventually there's the "trying not to break this is actively causing
problems, so now we're breaking it on purpose" level of explicitly not
supporting a platform. Relatively recent examples of that were stripping
out the Win9x support, as well as the culling of old code specific to
various proprietary Unix implementions.

I don't know how well this is articulated in the relevant PEP.

Cheers,
Nick.

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