remove IRIX support (closes bpo-31341) (#3310)

See PEP 11.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/Lib/distutils/util.py b/Lib/distutils/util.py
index fdcf6fa..b8a6911 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
@@ -16,21 +16,17 @@ from distutils import log
 from distutils.errors import DistutilsByteCompileError
 
 def get_platform ():
-    """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.
+    """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. 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:
        win-amd64 (64bit Windows on AMD64 (aka x86_64, Intel64, EM64T, etc)
@@ -38,6 +34,7 @@ def get_platform ():
        win32 (all others - specifically, sys.platform is returned)
 
     For other non-POSIX platforms, currently just returns 'sys.platform'.
+
     """
     if os.name == 'nt':
         # sniff sys.version for architecture.
@@ -87,8 +84,6 @@ def get_platform ():
             bitness = {2147483647:"32bit", 9223372036854775807:"64bit"}
             machine += ".%s" % bitness[sys.maxsize]
         # fall through to standard osname-release-machine representation
-    elif osname[:4] == "irix":              # could be "irix64"!
-        return "%s-%s" % (osname, release)
     elif osname[:3] == "aix":
         return "%s-%s.%s" % (osname, version, release)
     elif osname[:6] == "cygwin":