[Samba] Ask not for whom the bell tolls HPUX. It tolls for thee..

[Jonathon Reinhart]

Just out of curiosity, and not because I care about HP-UX, I dug a
little further and found:

This article [1] says:

> Support for HPE’s Itanium-powered Integrity servers, and HP-UX 11i v3, will come to an end on December 31, 2025.

The HP-UX SUPPORT MATRIX [2] confirms that, noting:

- HP-UX 11i v3 obsolescence date (last date software offered for
sale): HPE Integrity: through at least 31-Dec-2023
- End of factory support: HP 9000: through 31-Mar-2021; HPE Integrity:
through at least 31-Dec-2025
- Footnote 4: HP-UX 11i v3 will be under Standard Support through at
least December 31, 2025. Mature Product Support without sustaining
engineering for HP-UX 11i v3 will start after Standard Support ends
and will be offered for a minimum of 3 years.

I don't care, but HPE might. But I'm not sure if Samba does :-)

Jonathon

[1]: https://mainframedebate.com/2020/07/21/death-of-hp-ux-and-itanium/
[2]: https://psnow.ext.hpe.com/doc/4aa4-7673enw

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 1:55 PM Jeremy Allison via samba
<samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
> OK, I've gotten approval and removed the code
> for Tru64 UNIX in Samba (last supported release
> 2012).
>
> Now I'd like to ask about a harder topic.
>
> HPUX :-).
>
> Wikipedia says:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-UX#Versions
>
> "the latest revision being B.11.31.1805,[16] released in May 2018."
>
> so it's still in support. Just. But it looks moribund
> to me :-).
>
> Is anyone still using it with Samba ? Does anyone
> still care ?
>
> Speak now or...
>
> Jeremy.
>
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