[Python-Dev] Drop OS/2 support? (original) (raw)
Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Apr 17 11:39:27 CEST 2010
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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.
-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia
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