[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms (original) (raw)
Larry Hastings larry at hastings.org
Thu Jan 28 09:57:20 EST 2016
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Check out and cd into Python trunk.
% grep -Ri win16 * | wc 10 66 625
% grep -Ri nextstep | wc 23 119 1328
% grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc 47 269 3390
% grep -Ri msdos * | wc 56 381 3895 % grep -Ri ms-dos * | wc 20 180 1425
win16! laughs wipes tear from eye
It's currently 2016. Perhaps it's time to remove all vestiges of these unsupported operating systems nobody's cared about since a year that started with a '1'?
//arry/
p.s. I suspect some of the uses of "rhapsody" are actually live code used for OS X. So this isn't necessarily dead code, some of it is merely long-out-of-date comments.
p.p.s. At least there were no references to "taligent", "copland", or "gershwin"...! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/attachments/20160128/a5580cf6/attachment.html>
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