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

[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
> for maintainers, so if any user is interested in ongoing support,
> they should step forward.
> 
> Having then also blog posts about these pending deprecations sounds
> fine to me - also adding them to the 3.2.x release pages would be
> appropriate (IMO). It's important that we give users due notice, but
> lacking any actual contribution, we should also be able to remove
> the code eventually.
> 
> So please go ahead and add them to PEP 11.

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.

Victor