On Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:48:49 +0100 "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > I'd like to tighten PEP 11, and declare a policy that systems > older than ten years at the point of a feature release are not > supported anymore by default. Older systems where support is still > maintained need to be explicitly listed in the PEP, along with > the name of the responsible maintainer (I think this would currently > only cover OS2/EMX which is maintained by Andrew MacIntyre). > > Support for such old platforms can then be removed from the codebase > immediately, no need to go through a PEP 11 deprecation cycle.
Seconded! > The other major system affected by this would be Windows 2000, for which > we already decided to not support it anymore. Is there any 2000-specific code (as opposed to XP-compatible)? Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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
