Guido van Rossum wrote: > Just and Jack have confirmed that you can throw away everything except > possibly Demo/*. (Just even speculated that some cruft may have been > accidentally revived by the cvs -> svn transition?) No, they had been present when cvs was converted: http://python.cvs.sourceforge.net/python/python/dist/src/Mac/IDE%20scripts/ These had caused ongoing problems for Windows, which could not stand files with trailing dots. Regards, Martin