arm and win32 report

D:\a\1\s\Modules\_hashopenssl.c(33,10): fatal error C1083: Cannot open include file: 'openssl/evp.h': No such file or directory

which doesn't seem related but it would still be better to have everything green to check in a file deletion. Let me update the branch.

OK, this is now passing. I'll leave this PR open for the next day or so, maybe @zooba has a comment before we remove the file.

This is fine, but are there any other files to be removed from the PC directory? No point doing a single PR for each one if they're this uncontroversial.

are there any other files to be removed from the PC directory

There are files mentioned nowhere in python/cpython (git grep filename.ext gives empty output). However, I don't know which ones are used by outside scripts and release managers, and which ones are abandoned and can be removed.

• PC/classicAppCompat.can.xml
• PC/classicAppCompat.cat
• PC/icons/launcher.icns
• PC/icons/py.icns
• PC/icons/pyc.icns
• PC/icons/pyd.icns
• PC/icons/python.icns
• PC/icons/pythonw.icns
• PC/icons/setup.icns
• PC/layout/support/appxmanifest.py
• PC/layout/support/catalog.py
• PC/layout/support/filesets.py
• PC/layout/support/nuspec.py
• PC/layout/support/props.py

The only thing I know is that the following files must be kept:

• PC/icons/*.svg (high quality sources)
• PC/store_info.txt (a kind of README)

JFYI, the list is generated with ..\python.bat ..\find_unused.py > 1.txt where find_unused.py is the following:

from os.path import basename
from subprocess import run
from sys import stderr

lstree = ('git', 'ls-tree', '-r', '--name-only', 'HEAD')
lstree_result = run(lstree, capture_output=True, check=True, text=True)
tracked_files = lstree_result.stdout.splitlines()

for file_path in tracked_files:
    print(file_path, file=stderr)
    file_name = basename(file_path)
    grep_result = run(['git', 'grep', '-q', file_name, '--', ':/'])
    found_no_usage = grep_result.returncode != 0
    if found_no_usage:
        print(f'- {file_path}')

@pablogsal Are PC/icons/*.icns and PC/classicAppCompat.* used to build Python 3.12 installers? If no, can they be safely deleted?

You need to fix that script, because those files are definitely used ;-)

The *.icns ones are the macOS versions of those icons, which we kept for the day that the icons are aligned between releases. They're probably genuinely not referenced anywhere.

All the rest are part of the PC/layout script, and are essential. So this tells me there's nothing left to clean up and I can merge this PR, thanks!