[New-bugs-announce] [issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

[Larry Hastings]

New submission from Larry Hastings:

I can't tell if CPython ever really officially supported Windows CE or not.  There are some checkins around 2.5 that suggest there was at least partial support.  However posixmodule was supposed to be renamed "ce" on Windows CE, and that was never checked in.  (There was an external fork called "Python CE" for a while which *did* make this change.)

In any case, Windows CE support never survived the transition to Python 3.  It has clearly never even been compiled since Python 3.0 shipped.  In addition, the external "Python CE" project is dead; their last supported Python version was 2.5, back in 2007.  Windows CE appears to still be around as an embedded OS, but I don't think it's a user-visible OS.  The days of Windows CE palmtops is long gone.  And it's incontrevertably true: Python is no longer supported on Windows CE--if indeed it ever was.

So it's time for some late-spring cleaning!  The attached patch removes all remaining vestiges of Python's support for Windows CE.

A couple of minor questions/notes:

* I did a search-and-destroy for "ce", which lead me to _WIN32_WCE and MS_WINCE.

* I wasn't sure if I should touch Lib/platform.py.  (MAL?)

* I'm pretty sure I shouldn't touch config.sub, zlib, or ctypes.

Could one of you Windows guys apply the patch and tell me if anything blows up?

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assignee: larry
components: Interpreter Core, Library (Lib), Tests
files: larry.dont.wince.1.patch.txt
messages: 268886
nosy: larry, lemburg, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: patch review
status: open
title: Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file43481/larry.dont.wince.1.patch.txt

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