On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 15:22, anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> > wrote: > > Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: > >> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like > >> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to release. We don't > >> support Windows 9x since Python 2.6. What this file does in 3.x > >> distributions? > >> > >> http://bugs.python.org/issue2405 > > > > Read the report carefully. It can't be removed to support installations > > that have changed COMSPEC. > > What is the percentage of these installations? > Is it possible to support them using by 3rd-party package/distribution? I'm not sure the percentage matters. Someone somewhere may need it now or in the future, and keeping it requires zero effort. Removing it and creating an external distribution requires extra work from someone on python-dev and also on the user's part, which is a losing situation.
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