[Python-Dev] Removing pcre module

Tim Peters tim.one at comcast.net
Wed Jun 2 14:16:03 EDT 2004


[A.M. Kuchling]
> I've removed the pcre module, unused since Python 1.6, from CVS HEAD.

Yay!  We hardly knew ye, pcre.

> Should I try to edit the various build files in PC/ and PCbuild/ to
> remove it, or should that be left to the Windows-based developers (Tim,
> Thomas Heller, Martin)?

Leave it to the Windows geeks.  The build files are generated by MS IDEs,
and it's easiest, safest, and fastest for us to click the IDE's "delete this
file" button.  It will update the build files accordingly then.





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