Feature #18491: Drop support for IBM AIX and HP UX

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

There's code in Ruby for IBM AIX and HP UX (macros _AIX and __hpux), but we don't test on these systems nor do we have testing machines. IBM AIX's maintainer is listed as @kanemoto (Yutaka Kanemoto) and HP UX does not have a maintainer. Are these systems still actively maintained? Are there users of Ruby on these systems? Can we drop support for them?

[ngoto (Naohisa Goto)]

• Related to Feature #15894: Remove support for IA64 added

[ngoto (Naohisa Goto)]

About HP-UX:
Ruby already dropped support for IA-64 (Itanium) CPU architecture ( Feature #15894 ) on which HP-UX runs.
About older architecture, PA-RISC, end of support date of PA-RISC servers were 2013. (References: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA-RISC )
So, it seems it is OK to drop support for HP-UX.

About AIX:
It seems that the last bug report about AIX was in Apr 2021 (Bug #17787 ), only 9 month ago.
It is suggested that there may be active users.
I hope we can continue support it, if that is not too difficult.

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

I see. Thanks @ngoto (Naohisa Goto)! I'll drop support for HP-UX and keep support for AIX.

[peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed

Applied in changeset git|ffda21b7ba451b8fd874e9c8c2162c55053caa1e.

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[Feature #18491] Drop support for HP-UX

IA64 support was dropped in ticket #15894, so we can drop support for
HP-UX.