diff --git a/Tools/README b/Tools/README
index 404ba4dbfc6..97b3823ca54 100644
--- a/Tools/README
+++ b/Tools/README
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ audiopy		Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio
 
 bgen		Generate complete extension modules from a
 		description.  Still under development!
+                WARNING: bgen has been removed in 3.0
 
 compiler	Tools used to maintain the compiler package in the
 		standard library.
diff --git a/Tools/bgen/README b/Tools/bgen/README
index 70700c652ae..3cf9069d1a1 100644
--- a/Tools/bgen/README
+++ b/Tools/bgen/README
@@ -5,3 +5,5 @@ This directory contains BGEN -- a package that helps in generating
 complete source code for Python extension module.  For examples of its
 use, see the Mac Python source distribution (available separately
 from the Python ftp archives).  Note that BGEN is not Mac specific!
+
+WARNING: bgen has been removed in 3.0.