I vote against removal. We have no compelling need to disrupt an entire community and ecosystem even though it it is small.
To anyone chiming in to say, yes drop the support, ask whether you've consulted any of the users — they should have a say in the matter. It is better for them to be a bit neglected than to be cut it off entirely. FWIW, when the tracker issue landed with a PR, I became concerned that it would be applied without further discussion and without consulting users. So I asked on Twitter whether Solaris was being used. If you're interested in the responses, see the thread at: https://twitter.com/i/status/1321917936668340227 (Victor can't see it because he blocked my account a long time ago). Also take a look at the user comments on the tracker: https://bugs.python.org/issue42173 . For those who don't follow links, here's a sample: * "Platform genocide is both unnecessary and unwarranted." -- brett3 * "Please do not drop support." -- jm650 * "I just want to lend my voice in favor of maintaining "Solarish" support as well, and offer what help I may for resolving issues."-- robertfrench * "No no no, please don't." -- tbalbers * "Please do not drop support for SunOS." -- mariuspana * "Please continue support for Solaris/IllumOS! This is very important for us." -- marcheschi * "Please don't drop Solaris support, we still use it to this day." -- abarbu * ... and many more will the same flavor Given this kind of user response, I think it would irresponsible to drop support. Raymond _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/OUANIRPREED7ULVVVZX6CSEIEIJRPFDU/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
