[Python-Dev] Fun with ancient unsupported platforms
Christian Heimes
christian at python.org
Thu Jan 28 10:40:48 EST 2016
On 2016-01-28 15:57, Larry Hastings wrote:
>
>
> Check out and cd into Python trunk.
>
> % grep -Ri win16 * | wc
> 10 66 625
>
> % grep -Ri nextstep | wc
> 23 119 1328
>
> % grep -Ri rhapsody * | wc
> 47 269 3390
>
> % grep -Ri msdos * | wc
> 56 381 3895
> % grep -Ri ms-dos * | wc
> 20 180 1425
>
>
> win16! *laughs* *wipes tear from eye*
>
> It's currently 2016. Perhaps it's time to remove all vestiges of these
> unsupported operating systems nobody's cared about since a year that
> started with a '1'?
The platform module has more hilarious comments:
Still needed:
* more support for WinCE
* support for MS-DOS (PythonDX ?)
* support for Amiga and other still unsupported platforms running Python
Christian
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