Remove OSF support completelly

[jcea]

BPO	11495
Nosy	@jcea, @pitrou

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title = 'Remove OSF support completelly'
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[jcea]

OSF was deprecated in Python 3.2, following the PEP-11.

Now we must delete the support completelly for python 3.3.

[pitrou]

Well, all of the following systems/configurations should have their support removed in 3.3:

Name:             Systems using Mach C Threads
Name:             SunOS lightweight processes (LWP)
Name:             Systems using --with-pth (GNU pth threads)
Name:             Systems using Irix threads
Name:             OSF* systems (bpo-8606)

[jcea]

Uhm... cleaning this code I have a lot of references in ctypes libraries, especifically in the FFI section.

I have the feeling that we are importing this code from upstream, so I better don't touch this ctypes/FFI.

Am I right?.

[pitrou]

Uhm... cleaning this code I have a lot of references in ctypes
libraries, especifically in the FFI section.

I have the feeling that we are importing this code from upstream, so I
better don't touch this ctypes/FFI.

ctypes can be touched, but libffi shouldn't indeed.
(well... I believe our current copy of libffi may have changes applied,
but I don't know how/where they are maintained)

[python-dev]

New changeset 15b090c9442a by Jesus Cea in branch 'default':
Issue bpo-11495: OSF support is eliminated. It was deprecated in Python 3.2
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15b090c9442a

[jcea]

Committed as r15b090c9442a.

The other deprecated supports should be covered in other issues. I will check myself them in a while.