Author: Armin Rigo <[email protected]>
Branch: 
Changeset: r66279:1d3e8ab7f4dd
Date: 2013-08-21 13:21 +0200
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/1d3e8ab7f4dd/

Log:    Add a note.

diff --git a/pypy/doc/windows.rst b/pypy/doc/windows.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/windows.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/windows.rst
@@ -294,6 +294,10 @@
 long as you don't try too hard to crash it because of the precision loss
 that undoubtedly occurs everywhere.  Running the translation with such a
 hacked CPython would give the same effect as running it on top of the
-minimal PyPy described above.
+minimal PyPy described above.  (Note that it's ok to do that: once we get
+a full PyPy, we can simply tell people that future translations must be
+run on top of that.  We end up with a strange kind of dependency, but
+I believe it's ok here, as Windows executables are supposed to never be
+broken by newer versions of Windows.)
 
 Happy hacking :-)
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