[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 0ce745bb7717 by Martin Panter in branch 'default': Issue #27355: Import no longer needed https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/0ce745bb7717 -- ___ Python tracker

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Larry Hastings added the comment: Committed. Bye bye Windows CE! -- resolution: -> fixed stage: commit review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 7a2eccee823b by Larry Hastings in branch 'default': Issue #27355: Removed support for Windows CE. It was never finished, https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7a2eccee823b -- nosy: +python-dev ___ Python

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Zachary Ware added the comment: LGTM on Win32, Win64, and OSX. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Steve Dower added the comment: I'm building on Windows now. -- ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Larry Hastings added the comment: Refreshed the patch. With a Misc/NEWS entry I think it's ready for checkin. WFM on Linux 64-bit with gcc; can I get people to try other platforms? * os x (clang) * win32 * win64 -- Added file:

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Zachary Ware added the comment: See #23085 for more about our libffi situation. For this issue, with silence from Tim and Mark I say commit at will (and kill Modules/_ctypes/libffi_arm_wince/ as well). -- stage: patch review -> commit review ___

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Larry Hastings added the comment: Nosying two people who I know worked on the port originally, just in case they have an opinion about removing WinCE. (Remind me. Why is our private copy of libffi a divergent unmaintained fork? libffi still gets updates; last update was two years ago. Why

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

Zachary Ware added the comment: +1 Doesn't break anything in a x64 build for me. Modules/_ctypes/libffi_arm_wince/ should also be removed, though (it's a private, ancient copy of libffi that has never actually been used as far as I can tell). --

[issue27355] Strip out the last lingering vestiges of Windows CE support

New submission from Larry Hastings: I can't tell if CPython ever really officially supported Windows CE or not. There are some checkins around 2.5 that suggest there was at least partial support. However posixmodule was supposed to be renamed "ce" on Windows CE, and that was never checked