[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
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[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
STINNER Victor added the comment: The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils As discussed on python-dev, it's fine to support more C compiler to compile extensions, than compilers supported to build Python itself. there are several mentions in the documentation I did a quick check. It looks like Borland is usally mentionned to compile extensions, not to compile Python. May be there are mentions in some build-support files. Which files? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset f2ce9603346c by Victor Stinner in branch 'default': Issue #22592: Drop support of the Borland C compiler to build Python https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f2ce9603346c -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
STINNER Victor added the comment: Ok, I pushed my patch. If you see remaining parts of the Borland C compiler, you can remove them in a different changeset (reopen maybe the issue?). For distutils, I consider that it's a different topic. If you want to drop support of this compiler in distutils, please open a new issue. -- resolution: - fixed status: open - closed ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
STINNER Victor added the comment: It looks like Larry Hastings supports indirectly this issue :-) We still have #ifdef's for Borland C--I'd be very surprised if anyone was compiling Python 3 with Borland C. https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-October/136626.html -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: I don't know how reliable that Web site is, but apparently it may still be used for education: http://borlandc.org/ -- nosy: +mark.dickinson, pitrou ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: Antoine, antique Turbo Pascal 7.0 (for DOS!) [1] is widely used for education in xUSSR countries. Due to a bug [2] in the crt unit most education examples can't be ran on computers with modern processors (Pentium MMX and newer) and are ran under DosBox [3]. School teachers often are very conservative. The use of something for education doesn't means that it is used for other purposes. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runtime_error_200 [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOSBox -- nosy: +serhiy.storchaka ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: As for Borland C, it was reincarnated as Borland C++ Builder [1] and then as Embarcadero C++ Builder. I doubt that anyone was compiling Python 3 with it. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%2B%2BBuilder -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Antoine Pitrou added the comment: Then +1 from me for removing support. -- stage: - patch review ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: The patch LGTM but there is Borland C support in distutils and there are several mentions in the documentation. May be there are mentions in some build-support files. -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
New submission from STINNER Victor: As a follow-up of the issue #22591, I propose to drop support of the Borland C compiler. In 2000, it was nice to support Visual Studio and Borland C++ Builder, because they were the two most popular compilers on Windows. Borland C compiler could also be used on MS-DOS. But Borland stopped the development of its C compiler, it looks like the last release is Borland C++ Builder, which was released in 2000 (I'm not sure). So this proprietary compiler is now 14 years old. Python now focus on Visual Studio support. Microsoft gives us free licenses and a developer of Microsoft will probably build our binaries for Python 3.5. So Borland C++ Builder support is now almost useless. On Windows, I would prefer to focus our effort on open source compilers like GCC or OpenWatcom(v2). See for example the issue #22579. -- messages: 228923 nosy: haypo priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Drop support of Borland C compiler versions: Python 3.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
Changes by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfrever@gmail.com: -- nosy: +Arfrever ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue22592] Drop support of Borland C compiler
STINNER Victor added the comment: And now with a patch. -- keywords: +patch Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file36857/drop_borlandc_support.patch ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue22592 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
