[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms (original) (raw)
Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Thu Jan 28 11:29:41 EST 2016
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We slowly remove old platforms, but only if the code specific to these old platforms is annoying to maintain. For example, I wrote the change:
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a1605d2508af """ Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS
Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC).
Today is a sad day. Good bye MS-DOS, good bye my friend :'-( """ => http://bugs.python.org/issue22591
Victor
2016-01-28 15:57 GMT+01:00 Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org>:
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uses of "rhapsody" are actually live code used for OS X. So this isn't necessarily dead code, some of it is merely long-out-of-date comments.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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