Closed jackjansen closed 19 years ago
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.
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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.
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MacOS9 support is there up to 2.3. So then we should leave MertoWerks support in.
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