[Guido]
>> I wonder if it's time to move the Win32 code out of posixmodule.c? It
>> seems the current mess of #ifdefs can't be very maintainable.

[Martin v. Löwis]
> I vaguely recall that we had considered that before, and rejected it,
> for some reason. Not sure what the reason was, but one might have been
> that there still is OS/2 code in there, also.

Martin worked up a patch for this in 2002, which he withdrew based on
mixed reviews (a +0.5 and two -0); the comments still seem relevant:

    http://www.python.org/sf/592529
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