On 17/06/2014 04:08, Zachary Ware wrote:
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Victor Stinner
<victor.stin...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or
not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in
April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an hack to use
Windows upgrades on the desktop flavor using the embedded flavor (by
changing a key in the registry). Extracts of the Wikipedia page:
This was recently discussed in the "Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a
new compiler" thread, where Martin declared XP support to be ended
[1]. I believe Tim Golden is the only resident Windows dev from whom
I haven't seen at least implicit agreement that XP doesn't need
further support, so I'd say our support for XP is well and truly dead
:)
In any case, surely anyone stuck with XP can be happy with Python 3.4.
I'm perfectly fine with 3.2 on Win2k!
I think we're justified in dropping XP support, for all the reasons
others have given. Like most people, I suppose, I'm support WinXP in
various ways (including embedded) because "not supported" != "not
working". But those are all running 2.x versions of Python.
It'll be good to be able stretch a little on the Windows API front
without having to double-think about where a particular API came in.
TJG
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