On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 14:14, Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > 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!
Thirded! -Brett > >> 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/brett%40python.org > _______________________________________________ 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
