"Leif Stensson, Lysator" wrote:
Is the AmigaOS support completely broken, or does it greatly complicate something to keep it? I don't think it should be dropped just because of some general cleaning. But if it causes significant problems, or is unlikely to ever be fixed, dropping it makes sense.
To elaborate a bit on that: supporting an unusual operating system doesn't just support that OS. It also helps in other ways, for example:
(1) by diagnosing portability problems when trying to install Pike on that OS,
(2) providing one more possible starting point when developing support for a new platform,
(3) giving another benchmarking platform, which provides feedback on how generally useful different code optimizations are.
And AmigaOS, by being a non-Unix, helps more than average there. So even if there isn't any great demand for running Pike on AmigaOS, it would be a pity to abandon it without good reasons.