On Fri, Feb 24, 2006, Michael Foord wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Neal Norwitz wrote: >> >>> Martin and I were talking about dropping support for older versions of >>> Windows (of the non-NT flavor). We both thought that it was >>> reasonable to stop supporting Win9x (including WinME) in Python 2.6. >>> I updated PEP 11 to reflect this. >>> >>> The Python 2.5 installer will present a warning message on the systems >>> which will not be supported in Python 2.6. >> >> Hey, someone even wanted to continue supporting DOS... > > A lot of people are still using Windows 98. But I guess if noone is > volunteering to maintain the code...
DOS has some actual utility for low-grade devices and is overall a simpler platform to deliver code for. At the standard 18-month release cycle, it will be beginning of 2008 for the release of 2.6, which is ten years after Win98. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
