[Bf-taskforce25] Drop Irix?

[Campbell Barton]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Stefan Gartner<stefang at aon.at> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 22. July 2009, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> Python guys removed Irix support from their code for Python 2.4 -
>> released in 2004,
>
> Blender uses Python 2.5 on IRIX. As Chris already said, they only dropped
> support for an really ancient version of IRIX.
>
>>
>> We agreed switching to python 3 is planned once all OS's support it
>> (By switch I mean removing ifdef's for python 2.x), but by the looks
>> of it Irix cant be included in this list.
>>
>> Irix its self has been EndOfLife since 2006, so the situation with
>> library support will only worsen.
>
> It's still supported by the manufacturer (at least unit 2013).
>
>>
>> Last I read Irix would crash on reading 64bit blends, so not sure ifs
>> even considered supported currently?
>
> This is "only" a problem with 2.4x, last time I checked loading 64bit files
> works with 2.5.
>
>>
>> BSD/OSX/Linux/Windows are all fine for Python support.
>>
>> Practically this means removing scons, makefile config and around 30
>> ifdef checks. Keep SGI image format support :-)
>
> As I don't use scons on IRIX, I wouldn't care if the scons files get removed.
>
> I don't see removing support will help much, as long as there's someone around
> maintaining it and it doesn't get in the way. Besides, supporting exotic
> platforms helps making sure the code stays portable.
>
>
> greetings,
> stefan

Hi Stefan, agree about supporting exotic platforms which is why I
never posted about this before.
It boils down to weather Irix 6.x runs python 3.1 or not?

If so then its not problem to keep support.

-- 
- Campbell