On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:14, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 01.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Brian Curtin: > > I'm currently writing a post about the process of removing OS/2 and VMS > > support and thought about a discussion of Windows 2000 some time > > back. > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.htmlmakes > > a proposal for beginning to walk away from 2000, but doesn't appear to > > come to any conclusion. > > > > Was anything decided off the list? I don't see anything in PEP-11 and > > don't see any changes in the installer made around Windows 2000. > > That's what you get for not following your own processes. It seems the > discussion just stopped, with no action. I vaguely recall having made > changes to the installer to produce a warning, but apparently never > got to commit these changes. > > > If nothing was decided, should anything be done for 3.3? > > Most certainly. It seems we missed the chance of dropping support for > W2k, so we still can't actively remove any code. However, I'd > > a) add it to PEP 11, and > b) add a warning to the installer > > I stand by > > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098101.html > > i.e. if there are patches that happen not to work on W2k, I'd accept > them anyway - anybody interested in W2k would then have to provide > fixes before 3.3rc1. > > So please go ahead and change PEP 11. While you are at it, also threaten > to remove support for systems where the COMSPEC points to command.com > (#2405). > Done and done - http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b9390aa12855 I'll have a look at the installer and add some type of message.
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