Drop support for AIX?

[jmwilson]

None of the maintainers have access to an AIX build environment and there doesn't appear to be a turnkey low-cost way to get a hosted VM. Without knowing even the available compiler, there's no way to plan around the language standard to use, and whether the code even compiles.

[sunwire]

I am in favor of this idea.

[jonasstein]

I agree. If we have a developer with AIX someday in the future, we can still merge a PR to enable AIX support. @ninthclowd any objections to dropping AIX?

[c3rberus]

It would be great if we can keep AIX support, let me see if I can put together a build system for this, I have a system available (Power8 AIX 7.1), it does not have the IBM XL C/C++ compiler, but I should be able to use the packages from AIX Toolbox to build.

[jonasstein]

Thank you. In case that you have a reliable source for AIX, we can add it again.
When do you expect that your system is running?
Please add yourself to #36 as tester and prepare a pull request for a fully working and tested AIX source.

[jonasstein]

@c3rberus any news? Could you test it? Please add yourself to #36 as tester and prepare a pull request for a fully working and tested AIX source.