diff --git a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/pyston-0.6.0 b/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/pyston-0.6.0
deleted file mode 100644
index 5eb2b3aa..00000000
--- a/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/pyston-0.6.0
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-case "$(pyston_architecture 2>/dev/null || true)" in
-"linux64" )
-  install_package "pyston-0.6.0-linux64" "https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/releases/download/v0.6/pyston-0.6.0-linux64.tar.gz#c31240a66cd3ed566ef88a8818a960d925fbf60ab17db722224794346b827f9f" "pyston" verify_py27
-  # disabling ensurepip avoids having installation aborted because of a coredump
-  # pyston targets python 2.7.7 and does not have ensurepip, when attempting to
-  # run https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py it dumps core, see
-  # https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/issues/1373
-  # activate the virtualenv so that we're using the correct pip and site-packages location
-  # ( source "${PREFIX_PATH}/bin/activate" )
-  # FIXME: if this fails it should not break the installation
-  # ( cd "${PREFIX_PATH}/bin" && ./pip install https://github.com/dropbox/pyston/releases/download/v0.6/Cython-0.24-pyston.tar.gz && ./pip install git+git://github.com/numpy/numpy@v1.11.0 )
-  # deactivate the virtualenv
-  # ( deactivate )
-  ;;
-* )
-  { echo
-    colorize 1 "ERROR"
-    echo ": A Pyston 0.6.0 binary is not available for $(pyston_architecture 2>/dev/null || true)."
-    echo
-  } >&2
-  exit 1
-  ;;
-esac