On 06/10/2014 01:04, Pal Acreide wrote: > Hi, I'm a lurker here and enjoy the back-and-forth, especially among the > experts among you. > > My question is this: I have Python 3.4.1 installed on 64-bit Win 7 Home > Premium, and on 32-bit Win 7 Pro running on a virtual machine (Oracle > VirtualBox). Now I'm trying to install it on Windows 2000 Pro also > running under VBox. However, at some point near the end of the Python > installation I get an error message to the effect that a program > required for Win Installer is missing and the installation aborts. I'm > running W2K SP4 + (undocumented) SP5.1. > > I guess it comes down to: Can Python 3.4.1 be installed on W2K?
I'm afraid we formally dropped support for Win 2000 at least one version ago. You can see the official schedule here: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#unsupporting-platforms and you'll note that Win2K was unsupported from 3.3. In the first instance, all this means is that we no longer go out of our way to use backwards-compatible APIs (ie to avoid newer APIs). At that stage, it's quite possible that much or all Python code will still work on an older platform. But at a certain point, we may decide to de-clutter the codebase by removing particular #ifdefs and workarounds which exist to support a now-unsupported platform. At that point, you would expect Python to no longer be usable on that platform in some way or another. Of course, if you're happy to work with a slightly older version of Python, such as 3.2, then you should be fine. TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
