[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS (DJGPP compiler)

2014-10-10 Thread STINNER Victor
Changes by STINNER Victor : -- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed title: Drop support of MS-DOS -> Drop support of MS-DOS (DJGPP compiler) ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-10 Thread Roundup Robot
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset a1605d2508af by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a1605d2508af -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-10 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Yes! -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.o

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-10 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: I hope that "MS_WINDOWS" is also defined when Python is compiled by the Borland C compiler or OpenWatcom. IMO if it's not the case, it's a bug and it should be fixed. It means that my patch drop_msdos_support.patch only drops support for the DJGPP compiler in

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis : -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscri

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: Here is my huge patch :-) It only changes osdefs.h. In fact, I expected more code checking for __DJGPP__. For __WATCOMC__, it's unclear for me yet if the code is specific to MS-DOS or to the Watcom compiler. For example, timemodule.c includes to get the dela

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread Antoine Pitrou
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: > AFAIK Borland and Watcom compilers supported Windows. AFAIU Victor only proposes to remove the MSDOS-specific conditionals. But it's hard to tell, since he didn't post a patch ;-) -- nosy: +pitrou ___ Python track

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread STINNER Victor
STINNER Victor added the comment: > AFAIK Borland and Watcom compilers supported Windows. It looks like Borland C++ Builder 5.5 was released in 2000, 14 years ago. Yes, it supports Windows and MS-DOS, but do we really want to support this very old proprietary compiler? For Watcom, it's a diff

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread Serhiy Storchaka
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: AFAIK Borland and Watcom compilers supported Windows. -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue22591] Drop support of MS-DOS

2014-10-09 Thread STINNER Victor
New submission from STINNER Victor: In the C code of Python 3.5, there are still preprocessor commands checking for defines: - __BORLANDC__: Borland C compiler - __WATCOMC__: Watcom C compiler - __DJGPP__: MS-DOS port of GCC In 2014, it's time to drop this old code. OS/2 support was already re