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Remove some old Visual Studio versions from PC/ directory #60973

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briancurtin opened this issue Dec 24, 2012 · 4 comments
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Remove some old Visual Studio versions from PC/ directory #60973

briancurtin opened this issue Dec 24, 2012 · 4 comments
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BPO 16769
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While fixing bpo-14470 to remove w9xpopen support, removing it from old Visual Studio projects came up.

  1. I can't imagine anyone is attempting to use most of these.
  2. Since we don't backport build changes to these older versions, some of them are very out of date and can't be that useful.

I propose to remove the following:

  1. PC/VC6 - this version is from 1998 and is the last compiler to support Win9x, which we just removed support for with the w9xpopen change via PEP-11.
  2. PC/VS7.1 - this version is from 2003 and still contains references to WISE installer, which IIRC has not been used since 2.3. On top of that, it's missing many of the current project files.

I'm skeptical of PC/VS8.0's use as Visual Studio 2005 is pretty old and it too is missing many current project files, but there is a conversion script that may help point someone in the right direction. I do remember Hirokazu Yamamoto mentioning using 2005 for some purposes, but this was years ago.

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Do you want to keep VS9.0 only?
Sounds good to me.

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Definitely keeping PC/VS9.0 as it's still fairly common and VS2008 is still used by us for 2.7.

I would like to remove PC/VS8.0 but if anyone speaks towards keeping it then I think it's fine.

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python-dev mannequin commented Jan 25, 2013

New changeset 01bbac9369e8 by Brian Curtin in branch 'default':
Fix bpo-16769. Remove outdated Visual Studio project directories for VC6, VS7.1, and VS8.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/01bbac9369e8

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