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Though as we recently learned, it's considered sufficiently "fringe" by a big chunk of the development community that it's not that big a deal to drop support f
by macksd 5y ago
Though as we recently learned, it's considered sufficiently "fringe" by a big chunk of the development community that it's not that big a deal to drop support for it. (Not to imply IBM couldn't be sponsoring development for it more).
- mastax 5y agoIf you're talking about the python cryptography fiasco that was dropping support for S390 (31-bit architecture discontinued in 1999). S390X (64-bit architecture introduced in 2000) is supported by Rust, though not necessarily by Python Cryptography. Incidentally Rust's continued support for S390X is driven primarily by cuviper who works for Red Hat (even before the IBM acquisition).
- cbmuser 5y agoBut s390x support isn't dropped anywhere. On the contrary, IBM spends a lot of money and efforts to make sure it is well supported by free software.