[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms (original) (raw)

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 10:44:32 EST 2016

win16 doesn't seem to have important stuff:

https://github.com/python/cpython/search?utf8=✓&q="win16"

On January 28, 2016 8:57:20 AM CST, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:

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uses of "rhapsody" are actually live code used for OS X. So this isn't necessarily dead code, some of it is merely long-out-of-date comments.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"...! ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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