[ python-Bugs-1239948 ] distutils: MetroWerks support can go

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Bugs item #1239948, was opened at 2005-07-17 23:44
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Category: Distutils
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Later
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Assigned to: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter)
Summary: distutils: MetroWerks support can go

Initial Comment:
I'm not sure how far back the current distutils (i.e. the one from the 
CVS trunk) is supposed to be backward compatible, but from 2.4 
onwards Python does not support Mac OS 9 anymore, and therefore 
support for the MetroWerks C compiler can be ripped out. 
Theoretically there's an MW compiler on windows too, but nobody 
uses it and the mwerkscompiler object in distutils currently only 
support the Mac compiler. And actually only that in the exact way 
that MacPython used it.

I'm basically asking for an opinion here: is it a good idea to rip 
mwerkscompiler out. Feel free to assign back to me to do the work.

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>Comment By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen)
Date: 2005-08-06 23:22

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MacOS9 support is there up to 2.3. So then we should leave MertoWerks 
support in.

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Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis)
Date: 2005-08-06 14:46

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distutils is meant to be compatible with Python 2.1. Don't
know whether this means it still needs to support Metrowerks.

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