In article <cap7+vjlvrqfhefshn+i3mrahetvza_poh9oulmhyav6pbnw...@mail.gmail.com>, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 9:58 PM, Benjamin Peterson <benja...@python.org>wrote: > > It's not that I don't think Windows installers are important, but rather > > that Martin has indicated he is (completely reasonably) not interested > > in indefinitely making 2.7 installers. > Yeah, this was mentioned a few times. I quipped to Nick that Red Hat's > biggest contribution might be to take over the Windows Installer, but he > didn't bite. :-) > > But there's always the PSF. We may try to find some folks we trust with > relevant expertise to volunteer their time in return for a stipend from the > PSF for this and some other unglamorous tasks.
WRT the other set of installers we provide, I'm willing to keep producing OS X installers for an indeterminate future of 2.7. I reserve the right to get tired of it before 2038. And I certainly am not volunteering to take over the Windows Installer. I have it easy compared to Martin. If we decide to keep going past 2015, I will likely propose some changes in the supported OS X levels of the 2.7 installers, in particular dropping at least 10.3 and 10.4 which we already did for Py3 starting with 3.3.0. (By this I am not proposing to do anything to break source builds for those older systems.) That has some potential impact to end users, e.g. breaking ABI compatibility in a minor release, but I think the impact would be outweighed by the benefits of supporting newer os-dependent features and build tools. Any changes could be mitigated by a transitional release with installers for both the old and the new configurations. But that's just a head's up: I'm not prepared to go into details at the moment. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
