[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

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[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

STINNER Victor added the comment: Ok, I pushed my patch. If you see remaining parts of the Borland C compiler, you can remove them in a different changeset (reopen maybe the issue?). For distutils, I consider that it's a different topic. If you want to drop support of this compiler in distutil

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f2ce9603346c by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f2ce9603346c -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python trac

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

STINNER Victor added the comment: > The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils As discussed on python-dev, it's fine to support more C compiler to compile extensions, than compilers supported to build Python itself. > there are several mentions in the documentation I did a qui

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils and there are several mentions in the documentation. May be there are mentions in some build-support files. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Then +1 from me for removing support. -- stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-b

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: As for Borland C, it was reincarnated as Borland C++ Builder [1] and then as Embarcadero C++ Builder. I doubt that anyone was compiling Python 3 with it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2BBuilder -- ___ Pyth

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Antoine, antique Turbo Pascal 7.0 (for DOS!) [1] is widely used for education in xUSSR countries. Due to a bug [2] in the crt unit most education examples can't be ran on computers with modern processors (Pentium MMX and newer) and are ran under DosBox [3].

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't know how reliable that Web site is, but apparently it may still be used for education: http://borlandc.org/ -- nosy: +mark.dickinson, pitrou ___ Python tracker ___

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

STINNER Victor added the comment: It looks like Larry Hastings supports indirectly this issue :-) "We still have #ifdef's for Borland C--I'd be very surprised if anyone was compiling Python 3 with Borland C." https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-October/136626.html --

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

STINNER Victor added the comment: And now with a patch. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36857/drop_borlandc_support.patch ___ Python tracker ___ __

[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

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[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler

New submission from STINNER Victor: As a follow-up of the issue #22591, I propose to drop support of the Borland C compiler. In 2000, it was nice to support Visual Studio and Borland C++ Builder, because they were the two most popular compilers on Windows. Borland C compiler could also be use