Commit aae45e4a authored by Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Update list of unsupported systems. Fixes #1510853.

parent 5a067426
......@@ -226,13 +226,13 @@ compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc).
Unsupported systems
-------------------
XXX This section is out of date!
A number of features are not supported in Python 2.3 anymore. Some
support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.4.
A number of features are not supported in Python 2.5 anymore. Some
support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.6.
If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems,
please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you
volunteer to support this system.
volunteer to support this system. For a more detailed discussion
regarding no-longer-supported and resupporting platforms, as well
as a list of platforms that became or will be unsupported, see PEP 11.
More specifically, the following systems are not supported any
longer:
......@@ -240,6 +240,7 @@ longer:
- DYNIX
- dgux
- Minix
- NeXT
- Irix 4 and --with-sgi-dl
- Linux 1
- Systems defining __d6_pthread_create (configure.in)
......@@ -247,6 +248,25 @@ longer:
or PY_PTHREAD_D7 in thread_pthread.h
- Systems using --with-dl-dld
- Systems using --without-universal-newlines
- MacOS 9
The following systems are still supported in Python 2.5, but
support will be dropped in 2.6:
- Systems using --with-wctype-functions
- Win9x, WinME
Warning on install in Windows 98 and Windows Me
-----------------------------------------------
Following Microsoft's closing of Extended Support for
Windows 98/ME (July 11, 2006), Python 2.6 will stop
supporting these platforms. Python development and
maintainability becomes easier (and more reliable) when
platform specific code targeting OSes with few users
and no dedicated expert developers is taken out. The
vendor also warns that the OS versions listed above
"can expose customers to security risks" and recommends
upgrade.
Platform specific notes
-----------------------
......@@ -426,14 +446,6 @@ UnixWare: There are known bugs in the math library of the system, as well as
thread may interrupt system calls in others). Therefore, test_math and
tests involving threads will fail until those problems are fixed.
SunOS 4.x: When using the SunPro C compiler, you may want to use the
'-Xa' option instead of '-Xc', to enable some needed non-ANSI
Sunisms.
THIS SYSTEM IS NO LONGER SUPPORTED.
NeXT: Not supported anymore. Start with the MacOSX/Darwin code if you
want to revive it.
QNX: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
configure works best if you use GNU bash; a port is available on
ftp.qnx.com in /usr/free. I used the following process to build,
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