> I realize nobody here cares about Open Watcom as a supported compiler; the Python community has made that *abundantly* clear.

I only heard once about Open Watcom, maybe 1 or 2 years ago. I see on http://www.openwatcom.org/ that the latest release is 4 years old.

Open Watcom is not packaged in my Linux Fedora 20. I downloaded the source code of the release 1.9 and I tried to compile it with build.sh. I had to modify build.sh to use bash instead of sh. Than the compilation of c/mglob.c failed with "Unknown CPU architecture", it looks like x86_64 CPU is not supported :-(

On which platform are you working? Dummy question, why not using a different compiler like GCC or Clang?

It was discussed recently to define rules to support a platform (ex: OpenBSD). For example, a requirement to have a buildbot and someone able to fix issues. I'm trying to help to support AIX even if I don't consider the platform important enough and I don't like proprietary software :) There is a buildbot and a developer proposing regulary patches.

If you want an official and full support of OpenWatcom, it's better to discuss it on the python-dev mailing list.