Removing some systems

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Just FTR...
http://www.osnews.com/story/28933/Blue_Lion_new_OS_2_distribution_due_2016

Not that I'd take that as a mandate to preserve support... We are having
the same internal dialog at the ASF httpd project and coming to the same
conclusions.
On Mar 17, 2016 1:36 PM, "Salz, Rich" <rsalz at akamai.com> wrote:

> We are planning on removing the following systems from OpenSSL 1.1:
>
> Netware
>
> OS/2
>
>
>
> There are a few reasons for this.  In no particular order they include:
> these platforms are no longer supported by the vendor; the configurations
> and builds have not been testable by the team for years and might not even
> work; nobody on the team has access to any of these.
>
>
>
> As a hopefully mediating factor, please note that they are still part of
> 1.0.2, which we have said is an LTS release with support until 2019.
>
>
>
> People interested in supporting any of these systems should look at
> building their own configuration with the template system; post on the
> openssl-dev list for help.  Reducing the footprint and tangle of #ifdef?s
> is also very important.
>
>
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> We are also looking at others that are in a similar (although perhaps not
> identical) reason and will post here about them.
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