> I would not be opposed to deleting the whole Demo/sgi tree. OK, I've done this. I've saved a private copy of the mclock code for nostalgic purposes; I may yet rewrite using Tkinter. :-) > I don't have an SGI workstation anymore, but I did have an SGI O2 > until recently. I think the audio (and al) stuff and the gl stuff > probably still work (I used mclock until recently). I think we can > definitely get rid of the video directory (CMIF video format, remember > that?). I'm not sure whether sv still compiles on modern SGI's. The > cd module also still works. > > Having said this, I'm not sure there is still much value in keeping > the demos. The modules in the Modules directory is another matter. > Until recently I have used cd and al. I think cl might still work, > but I'm not sure. I don't think sv works on anything other than > Indigo's with a Starter Video board. > gl (and I think also fm) still works. sgi also still works, but I'm > not sure how useful it still is. It just defines functions nap and > _getpty. > rgbimg is for reading SGI RGB images, but is portable. Although one > must ask whether it has a place in the standard library, since there > is no similar level of support for more popular image formats. OK, I won't touch the SGI specific code in Lib and Modules. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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