> On 29 Oct 2020, at 22:43, Victor Stinner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I propose to drop the Solaris support in Python to reduce the Python > maintenance burden: > > https://bugs.python.org/issue42173 > > I wrote a draft PR to show how much code could be removed (around 700 > lines in 65 files): > > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/23002/files
A significant fraction of that is in comments and documentation. A number of the changes in documentation would be good to go in regardless of the resolution of this proposal. > > In 2016, I asked if we still wanted to maintain the Solaris support in > Python, because Solaris buildbots were failing for longer than 6 > months and nobody was able to fix them. It was requested to find a > core developer volunteer to fix Solaris issues and to set up a Solaris > buildbot. > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/NOT2RORSNX72ZLUHK2UUGBD4GTPNKBUS/#NOT2RORSNX72ZLUHK2UUGBD4GTPNKBUS > > Four years later, nothing has happened. Moreover, in 2018, Oracle laid > off the Solaris development engineering staff. There are around 25 > open Python bugs specific to Solaris. As another data point: There is someone on BPO that files issues about Solaris on BPO, including PRs. It might be worthwhile to ask that person if they can provide a buildbot (while making clear that this results in the assumption that they’d look after Solaris port). If Solaris would get dropped I’d prefer option 2 Ronald — Twitter / micro.blog: @ronaldoussoren Blog: https://blog.ronaldoussoren.net/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/XFRQ2VEBK6NKUWMC6HXOJDLAIOQHORCP/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/