[issue7962] Demo and Tools need to be tested and pruned

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

I’m making this a meta-bug to record the evaluation of demos and tools, in followup with the thread “Signs of neglect?” started on http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-June/101092.html.

Some of them have already been adopted or deleted. Please add yourself to Misc/maintainers.rst when you adopt one.

I also propose adding either a section in the README or a new README.removed file to list the deletions; there are probably people out there using these tools (maybe not demos, though), so it’s more polite to tell them “metaclasses is removed, see this doc for modern built-in metaclasses” than to just remove the file.

Regarding testing, please comment on #9153.

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dependencies: +Demo/embed/demo.c use of PySys_SetArgv() is invalid, Use ISO timestamp in diff.py, replace dist/src/Tools/scripts/which.py with tmick's which, svnmerge errors in msgfmt.py
nosy: +holdenweb
title: Demo/ directory needs to be tested and pruned -> Demo and Tools need to be tested and pruned

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