[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Jay Krell added the comment: I have a machine up and running that I would like to run this on. Perhaps that is vastly inadequate. Nothing is free, I realize. And Solaris, agreed, would seem to merit "more" support, but zero==zero. I will see if I can setup a buildbot and I am wondering being

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: IMHO the most important question to answer first is: Why is adding OSF1 support a good idea? The PR, which IMHO in its current state is not mergeable, adds some complexity to the build and ongoing maintenance of CPython itself. This tends to be acceptable

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: On 7/9/2021 5:29 PM, Jay Krell wrote: > Probably. What does "support" mean? This is not my ballpark. One can also access pydev as newsgroup gmane.comp.python.devel at news.gmane.io -- ___ Python tracker

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Jay Krell added the comment: > "credible offer to maintain platform support for several years." Probably. What does "support" mean? Fix user-reported bugs? I expect very few/zero. Run a buildbot? Maybe. Not sure it is worthwhile, depending on frequency. Provide little autoconf/ifdef patches

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Jay, this issue and PR should either be closed, or you should post on pydev list saying why support should be re-enabled, along with a credible offer to maintain platform support for several years. -- nosy: +terry.reedy _

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: As mentioned on the PR: Support for OSF1 was removed in Python 3.3 (see https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#unsupporting-platforms). I expect that there will be little interest amongst the core developers for reintroducing support because OSF1 is an

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

Change by Jay Krell : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +25616 stage: -> patch review pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/27063 ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue44583] Failure to build on OSF1.

New submission from Jay Krell : Python fails to compile on OSF1. I have it about working. (I have Python2 already working.) I'm opening an issue to meet the PR guidelines. -- components: Interpreter Core messages: 397128 nosy: jaykrell priority: normal severity: normal status: open titl