On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 3:39 AM, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 11/01/2015 03:08 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> Windows XP has now been around for twelve years. > > It's older than that. Release date was August 1, 2001. More than 14 > years ago. My how the time flies. > > Though more recent versions of Windows have added features (which Python > now takes advantage of), it doesn't seem to me that we've gained much in > all that time in overall usability terms, from an end-user persepective. > If it weren't for security issues, I'm sure Windows XP would work just > fine indefinitely for some tasks. But they will have to stick with > unmaintained software and any problems that entails.
Hmm. I had a mental notion of XP as a 2003 release. So, it's even more so: it's been around for fourteen years, and XPSP3 came out seven years ago, so it's been that long since a major upgrade of any sort. That's approximately the age of RHEL 5 - and a base XP is slightly older than RHEL 2.1, the oldest that I can find dates for. If we're really generous, then, we can accept that XP SP3 is about on par with a Linux that's shipping Python 2.4. The fact that 2.7 and 3.4 both run on XP is a tribute to the extensive support that XP *does* have. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
