[Python-Dev] Removing Mac OS 9 cruft

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> Just and Jack have confirmed that you can throw away everything except
> possibly Demo/*. (Just even speculated that some cruft may have been
> accidentally revived by the cvs -> svn transition?)

No, they had been present when cvs was converted:

http://python.cvs.sourceforge.net/python/python/dist/src/Mac/IDE%20scripts/

These had caused ongoing problems for Windows, which could not stand
files with trailing dots.

Regards,
Martin