On 01/05/12 06:56, Bruno Haible wrote: > According to Wikipedia [2], the vendor support of AIX 5.1 ended in 2006, > the one of AIX 5.2 in 2009, and AIX 5.3 is still vendor-supported.
That isn't quite right for 5.2, in the sense that IBM still supports AIX 5.2 and 5.3 workload partitions under AIX 7. These are VMs designed to run old application environments that can't be upgraded. See e.g. <http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/sysmgmt/wpar/v52_wpar.html>. These workload-partition systems became available only starting in 2010, and will be supported for some time: currently there is no end-of-support date for them. <http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/aix/lifecycle/> We might need to clarify Gnulib's target-platform policy to deal with this sort of thing, as it may become more popular in the future.
