We slowly remove old platforms, but only if the code specific to these old platforms is annoying to maintain. For example, I wrote the change:
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/a1605d2508af """ Issue #22591: Drop support of MS-DOS Drop support of MS-DOS, especially of the DJGPP compiler (MS-DOS port of GCC). Today is a sad day. Good bye MS-DOS, good bye my friend :'-( """ => http://bugs.python.org/issue22591 Victor 2016-01-28 15:57 GMT+01:00 Larry Hastings <la...@hastings.org>: > > > 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'? > > > /arry > > p.s. I suspect some of the uses of "rhapsody" are actually live code used > for OS X. So this isn't necessarily dead code, some of it is merely > long-out-of-date comments. > > p.p.s. At least there were no references to "taligent", "copland", or > "gershwin"...! > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list > Python-Dev@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev > Unsubscribe: > https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/victor.stinner%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
