[Python-3000] Any platforms we want to drop for Py3K? (original) (raw)
Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Fri Dec 22 21:07:25 CET 2006
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On 12/21/06, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
Actually you should post this to python-dev. Let's be aggressive. All of those look like we should've stopped supporting them years ago... :-)
OK, moved it over along with the two comments that came in on this thread.
-Brett
On 12/21/06, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote: > I am starting to compile the list of modules to suggest for removal and I > noticed that there are still a large number for platform-specific > directories in Lib/. I was wondering if we should consider some platforms > for removal. > > The reason I am not sending this to python-dev is I figure we could possibly > be a little bit more aggressive with the removal of support here. > > Anyway, I would think we could remove the following platforms: > > * AtheOS > * BeOS > * FreeBSD 2 (maybe more?) > * IRIX > * NeXT > * OS/2 > * SunOS 5 > * UnixWare > > If any of these are not considered contraversial at all we can also > deprecate for removal in Python 2.x. > > -Brett > > _> ________________________ > Python-3000 mailing list > Python-3000 at python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 > Unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/guido%40python.org > > >
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