[ruby-core:107162] [Ruby master Feature#18491] Drop support for IBM AIX and HP UX

Issue #18491 has been updated by 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.

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Feature #18491: Drop support for IBM AIX and HP UX
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/18491#change-96022

* Author: peterzhu2118 (Peter Zhu)
* Status: Open
* Priority: Normal
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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 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?



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