On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob <iacobcata...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > ... >> P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: > ... >> - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP > > I recently read about Firefox switching to VS2010 and therefore > needing to drop support for Windows 2000, XP RTM (no service pack) and > XP SP1. Indeed, [1] confirms that the VS2010 runtime (it's not clear > if the C one, the C++ one or both) needs XP SP2 or higher. > > Just thought I'd share this so that an informed decision can be made, > in my opinion it would be ok for Python 3.3 to drop everything prior > to XP SP2. > > Maybe not very relevant, but [2] has some mention of statistics for > Firefox usage on systems prior to XP SP2. > > [1] > http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/526821/executables-built-with-visual-c-2010-do-not-run-on-windows-xp-prior-to-sp2 > [2] > http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end_of_firefox_win2k.html
We already started moving forward with dropping Windows 2000 prior to this coming up. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111159.html was the discussion (which links an older discussion) and PEP-11 (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/) was updated accordingly. _______________________________________________ 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