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authorBenjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>2017-09-04 23:36:05 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2017-09-04 23:36:05 (GMT)
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remove IRIX support (closes bpo-31341) (#3310)
See PEP 11.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/apiref.rst11
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/sysconfig.rst9
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index b5b7731..622c7d1 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -1086,19 +1086,16 @@ other utility module.
Return a string that identifies the current platform. This is used mainly to
distinguish platform-specific build directories and platform-specific built
- distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the architecture
- (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the exact information included depends
- on the OS; eg. for IRIX the architecture isn't particularly important (IRIX only
- runs on SGI hardware), but for Linux the kernel version isn't particularly
- important.
+ distributions. Typically includes the OS name and version and the
+ architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the exact information
+ included depends on the OS; e.g., on Linux, the kernel version isn't
+ particularly important.
Examples of returned values:
* ``linux-i586``
* ``linux-alpha``
* ``solaris-2.6-sun4u``
- * ``irix-5.3``
- * ``irix64-6.2``
For non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns ``sys.platform``.
diff --git a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
index f066a76..84f5646 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sysconfig.rst
@@ -173,18 +173,15 @@ Other functions
This is used mainly to distinguish platform-specific build directories and
platform-specific built distributions. Typically includes the OS name and
- version and the architecture (as supplied by :func:`os.uname`), although the
- exact information included depends on the OS; e.g. for IRIX the architecture
- isn't particularly important (IRIX only runs on SGI hardware), but for Linux
- the kernel version isn't particularly important.
+ version and the architecture (as supplied by 'os.uname()'), although the
+ exact information included depends on the OS; e.g., on Linux, the kernel
+ version isn't particularly important.
Examples of returned values:
- linux-i586
- linux-alpha (?)
- solaris-2.6-sun4u
- - irix-5.3
- - irix64-6.2
Windows will return one of: