We are just not supporting the platform-specific modules, not the platform.
Here is the original checkin comment for PEP 11:
Remove support for freebsd[23] which were last released in 2000.
In 2.7 remove support for freebsd4 and 5. 4 is already not supported,
but the last version was released in 2005.
5 will be EOL around the same time as 2.6 is released.
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.htmlhttp://security.freebsd.org/
The reason for the removal is that the option causes
semantical problems and makes Unicode work in non-standard
ways on platforms that use locale-aware extensions to the
wc-type functions.
Since it wasn't previously announced, we can keep the option until 2.6
unless someone feels strong enough to rip it out.
Brett Cannon
Neal Norwitz
David Goodger
Andrew M. Kuchling
Martin v. Löwis
Barry Warsaw