Guido van Rossum
For the "deleted modules" section of the 2.0 article, I drew up a list of modules that might be outdated, mostly the SGI-specific ones. Are those modules still useful, and do the libraries they were written for still exist?
Doubtful. I've asked Sjoerd and Jack, who were most involved in using these.
For your cogitation, here's the list: sgimodule.c, glmodule.c (and hence cgenmodule.c), imgfile.c, svmodule.c, flmodule.c, fmmodule.c, almodule.c, clmodule.c, knee.py.
I'd like to keep knee.py -- it's a nice piece of *documentation* of the package import.
+1 on giving the SGI-specific modules the heave-ho. Their presence has always struck me as a sort of vermiform appendix in a core library otherwise clearly aimed at being as platform-independent as rdeasonably possible (e.g. given the Unix-vs.Windows differences). -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a> Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. -- Frederick Douglass, August 4, 1857