[Python-Dev] Removing modules

[Eric S. Raymond]

Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>:
> > For the "deleted modules" section of the 2.0 article, I drew up a list
> > of modules that might be outdated, mostly the SGI-specific ones.  Are
> > those modules still useful, and do the libraries they were written for
> > still exist?
> 
> Doubtful.  I've asked Sjoerd and Jack, who were most involved in using
> these.
> 
> > For your cogitation, here's the list: sgimodule.c, glmodule.c (and
> > hence cgenmodule.c), imgfile.c, svmodule.c, flmodule.c, fmmodule.c,
> > almodule.c, clmodule.c,  knee.py.
> 
> I'd like to keep knee.py -- it's a nice piece of *documentation* of
> the package import.

+1 on giving the SGI-specific modules the heave-ho.  

Their presence has always struck me as a sort of vermiform appendix in
a core library otherwise clearly aimed at being as platform-independent
as rdeasonably possible (e.g. given the Unix-vs.Windows differences).
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