Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-31 Thread Larry Hastings
On 01/28/2016 06:57 AM, Larry Hastings wrote: 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'? We dropped support for Irix in 2.3. We dropped support for Irix threads in 3.2. All

Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Thu, 28 Jan 2016 17:29:41 +0100 Victor Stinner wrote: > 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 supp

Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Barry Warsaw
Just as long as you can still build and run Python on Guido's ancient SGI machine . -Barry ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-

Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Ryan Gonzalez
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 wrote: > > >Check out and cd into Python trunk. > >% grep -Ri win16 * | wc > 10 66 625 > >% grep -Ri nextstep | wc > 23

Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Christian Heimes
On 2016-01-28 15:57, Larry Hastings wrote: > > > Check out and cd into Python trunk. > > % grep -Ri win16 * | wc > 10 66 625 > > % grep -Ri nextstep | wc > 23 1191328 > > % grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc > 47 2693390 > > % grep -Ri msdos * | wc > 56

[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Larry Hastings
Check out and cd into Python trunk. % grep -Ri win16 * | wc 10 66 625 % grep -Ri nextstep | wc 23 1191328 % grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc 47 2693390 % grep -Ri msdos * | wc 56 3813895 % grep -Ri ms-dos * | wc 20 1801425 win16!

Re: [Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms

2016-01-28 Thread Victor Stinner
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 p