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Title: distutils: MetroWerks support can go
Type: Stage:
Components: Distutils Versions:
process
Status: closed Resolution: later
Dependencies: Superseder:
Assigned To: anthonybaxter Nosy List: anthonybaxter, jackjansen, loewis
Priority: normal Keywords:

Created on 2005-07-17 21:44 by jackjansen, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg25830 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-07-17 21:44 
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.
msg25831 - (view) Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-08-06 12:46 
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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.
msg25832 - (view) Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) * (Python committer) Date: 2005-08-06 21:22 
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MacOS9 support is there up to 2.3. So then we should leave MertoWerks 
support in.
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2022-04-11 14:56:12adminsetgithub: 42198
2005-07-17 21:44:16jackjansencreate