[Python-Dev] Source file markers for Tru64?

[Guido van Rossum]

According to the wiki history, BeOS was added to the wiki page by Skip.

See http://wiki.python.org/moin/Py3kDeprecated?action=info

(rev 6)

On 8/17/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> >     Martin> Can you please add it to PEP 11 first?
> >
> > Sorry, I was going by the Py3kDeprecated wiki page.
>
> Hmm. Who wrote this page, and why? I would hope that a PEP has more
> official status than a wiki page.
>
> >     Martin> Please also add code that makes the build break in a version
> >     Martin> where the code is still in place, so that users can know that
> >     Martin> support for their platform is to be removed (in 3.0, I presume).
> >
> > How do I do that?  Does that go in the Python 2.6 code?
>
> If you want to unsupport the system in 2.6, yes. You put something in
> configure.in which users can't fail to notice, e.g. a single-line abort
> that they need to uncomment before they can proceed. See earlier Python
> releases for how this was done (I would have to dig myself to find out
> what releases and what systems).
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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