Bugs item #1239948, was opened at 2005-07-17 23:44 Message generated for change (Comment added) made by jackjansen You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1239948&group_id=5470
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: Distutils Group: None >Status: Closed >Resolution: Later Priority: 5 Submitted By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) Assigned to: Anthony Baxter (anthonybaxter) Summary: distutils: MetroWerks support can go Initial Comment: 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Comment By: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) Date: 2005-08-06 23:22 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=45365 MacOS9 support is there up to 2.3. So then we should leave MertoWerks support in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Comment By: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) Date: 2005-08-06 14:46 Message: Logged In: YES user_id=21627 distutils is meant to be compatible with Python 2.1. Don't know whether this means it still needs to support Metrowerks. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=105470&aid=1239948&group_id=5470 _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
