diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 0d34fd3d..bae0dbdd 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -6,6 +6,5 @@ include doc/README.rst doc/SUCCESS doc/COPYING.LESSER doc/pep-0249.txt
include doc/Makefile doc/requirements.txt
recursive-include doc/src *.rst *.py *.css Makefile
recursive-include scripts *.py *.sh
-include scripts/maketypes.sh scripts/buildtypes.py
include AUTHORS README.rst INSTALL LICENSE NEWS
include MANIFEST.in setup.py setup.cfg Makefile
diff --git a/psycopg2.cproj b/psycopg2.cproj
index a1ca2a94..331bd68d 100644
--- a/psycopg2.cproj
+++ b/psycopg2.cproj
@@ -97,8 +97,6 @@
-
-
diff --git a/scripts/buildtypes.py b/scripts/buildtypes.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ae6c947..00000000
--- a/scripts/buildtypes.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,119 +0,0 @@
-# -*- python -*-
-#
-# Copyright (C) 2001-2003 Federico Di Gregorio
-#
-# This file is part of the psycopg module.
-#
-# psycopg2 is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it
-# under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published
-# by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# psycopg2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
-# ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
-# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
-# License for more details.
-#
-# this a little script that analyze a file with (TYPE, NUMBER) tuples
-# and write out C code ready for inclusion in psycopg. the generated
-# code defines the DBAPITypeObject fundamental types and warns for
-# undefined types.
-
-import sys
-from string import split, strip
-
-
-# here is the list of the foundamental types we want to import from
-# postgresql header files
-
-basic_types = (['NUMBER', ['INT8', 'INT4', 'INT2', 'FLOAT8', 'FLOAT4',
- 'NUMERIC']],
- ['LONGINTEGER', ['INT8']],
- ['INTEGER', ['INT4', 'INT2']],
- ['FLOAT', ['FLOAT8', 'FLOAT4']],
- ['DECIMAL', ['NUMERIC']],
- ['UNICODE', ['NAME', 'CHAR', 'TEXT', 'BPCHAR',
- 'VARCHAR']],
- ['STRING', ['NAME', 'CHAR', 'TEXT', 'BPCHAR',
- 'VARCHAR']],
- ['BOOLEAN', ['BOOL']],
- ['DATETIME', ['TIMESTAMP', 'TIMESTAMPTZ',
- 'TINTERVAL', 'INTERVAL']],
- ['TIME', ['TIME', 'TIMETZ']],
- ['DATE', ['DATE']],
- ['INTERVAL', ['TINTERVAL', 'INTERVAL']],
- ['BINARY', ['BYTEA']],
- ['ROWID', ['OID']])
-
-# unfortunately we don't have a nice way to extract array information
-# from postgresql headers; we'll have to do it hard-coding :/
-array_types = (['LONGINTEGER', [1016]],
- ['INTEGER', [1005, 1006, 1007]],
- ['FLOAT', [1017, 1021, 1022]],
- ['DECIMAL', [1231]],
- ['UNICODE', [1002, 1003, 1009, 1014, 1015]],
- ['STRING', [1002, 1003, 1009, 1014, 1015]],
- ['BOOLEAN', [1000]],
- ['DATETIME', [1115, 1185]],
- ['TIME', [1183, 1270]],
- ['DATE', [1182]],
- ['INTERVAL', [1187]],
- ['BINARY', [1001]],
- ['ROWID', [1028, 1013]])
-
-# this is the header used to compile the data in the C module
-HEADER = """
-typecastObject_initlist typecast_builtins[] = {
-"""
-
-# then comes the footer
-FOOTER = """ {NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL}\n};\n"""
-
-
-# useful error reporting function
-def error(msg):
- """Report an error on stderr."""
- sys.stderr.write(msg + '\n')
-
-# read couples from stdin and build list
-read_types = []
-for l in sys.stdin.readlines():
- oid, val = split(l)
- read_types.append((strip(oid)[:-3], strip(val)))
-
-# look for the wanted types in the read touples
-found_types = {}
-
-for t in basic_types:
- k = t[0]
- found_types[k] = []
- for v in t[1]:
- found = filter(lambda x, y=v: x[0] == y, read_types)
- if len(found) == 0:
- error(v + ': value not found')
- elif len(found) > 1:
- error(v + ': too many values')
- else:
- found_types[k].append(int(found[0][1]))
-
-# now outputs to stdout the right C-style definitions
-stypes = sstruct = ""
-for t in basic_types:
- k = t[0]
- s = str(found_types[k])
- s = '{' + s[1:-1] + ', 0}'
- stypes = stypes + ('static long int typecast_%s_types[] = %s;\n' % (k, s))
- sstruct += (' {"%s", typecast_%s_types, typecast_%s_cast, NULL},\n'
- % (k, k, k))
-for t in array_types:
- kt = t[0]
- ka = t[0] + 'ARRAY'
- s = str(t[1])
- s = '{' + s[1:-1] + ', 0}'
- stypes = stypes + ('static long int typecast_%s_types[] = %s;\n' % (ka, s))
- sstruct += (' {"%s", typecast_%s_types, typecast_%s_cast, "%s"},\n'
- % (ka, ka, ka, kt))
-sstruct = HEADER + sstruct + FOOTER
-
-print stypes
-print sstruct
diff --git a/scripts/maketypes.sh b/scripts/maketypes.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 4165c1fb..00000000
--- a/scripts/maketypes.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-SCRIPTSDIR="`dirname $0`"
-SRCDIR="`dirname $SCRIPTSDIR`/psycopg"
-
-if [ -z "$1" ] ; then
- echo Usage: $0 ''
- exit 1
-fi
-
-echo -n checking for pg_type.h ...
-if [ -f "$1/catalog/pg_type.h" ] ; then
- PGTYPE="$1/catalog/pg_type.h"
-else
- if [ -f "$1/server/catalog/pg_type.h" ] ; then
- PGTYPE="$1/server/catalog/pg_type.h"
- else
- echo
- echo "error: can't find pg_type.h under $1"
- exit 2
- fi
-fi
-echo " found"
-
-PGVERSION="`sed -n -e 's/.*PG_VERSION \"\([0-9]\.[0-9]\).*\"/\1/p' $1/pg_config.h`"
-PGMAJOR="`echo $PGVERSION | cut -d. -f1`"
-PGMINOR="`echo $PGVERSION | cut -d. -f2`"
-
-echo checking for postgresql major: $PGMAJOR
-echo checking for postgresql minor: $PGMINOR
-
-echo -n generating pgtypes.h ...
-awk '/#define .+OID/ {print "#define " $2 " " $3}' "$PGTYPE" \
- > $SRCDIR/pgtypes.h
-echo " done"
-echo -n generating typecast_builtins.c ...
-awk '/#define .+OID/ {print $2 " " $3}' "$PGTYPE" | \
- python $SCRIPTSDIR/buildtypes.py >$SRCDIR/typecast_builtins.c
-echo " done"