On 12 July 2013 13:27, Lennart Regebro wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Steve Dower
> wrote:
> > +1. And maybe amend PEP 11 to specify "whose extended support phase does
> not expire within 6 months of release"? (I picked 6 for no particular
> reason.)
>
> Why have the specification in
"Stephen J. Turnbull" writes:
> I don't see any good reason to take into account what Microsoft does
> or doesn't support.
It seems you're advocating a position quite ad odds with
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#id7>. Can you propose an
amendment to PEP 11 that would remove that conside
On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 2:11 AM, Steve Dower wrote:
> +1. And maybe amend PEP 11 to specify "whose extended support phase does not
> expire within 6 months of release"? (I picked 6 for no particular reason.)
Why have the specification in PEP 11 if we feel we can change the
rules arbitrarily when
Steve Dower writes:
> I don't see any good reason for Python to support an OS that
> Microsoft doesn't,
How about the *users* of that OS?
I don't see any good reason to take into account what Microsoft does
or doesn't support. If that lack of support leads to Python users
dropping XP like hot
Ah, yeah, that makes sense -- thanks for the further explanation. True
about older versions of Python "not going away".
> What about just have these attributes/functions on OSes that support it,
> > for example os.kill on Python 2.6 vs 2.7?
>
> I'm afraid it's not that simple. The issue (as I un
On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 13:49:54 +1200, Ben Hoyt wrote:
> I guess it has to be dropped at some stage, but with Windows XP it's a case
> of "XP is dead. Long live XP!" There are still an awful lot of XP boxes out
> there, and I'd kind hate to see support dropped completely. We still use it
> here at ho
I guess it has to be dropped at some stage, but with Windows XP it's a case
of "XP is dead. Long live XP!" There are still an awful lot of XP boxes out
there, and I'd kind hate to see support dropped completely. We still use it
here at home.
Wikipedia/Net Applications says that Windows XP has stil
On 07/11/2013 04:58 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
how do you feel about dropping Windows XP support for Python 3.4? It
would enable us to use some features that are only available on Windows
Vista and newer, for example http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 and
http://bugs.python.org/issue1763 .
PEP 1
+1. And maybe amend PEP 11 to specify "whose extended support phase does not
expire within 6 months of release"? (I picked 6 for no particular reason.)
I don't see any good reason for Python to support an OS that Microsoft doesn't,
but once 3.4.0 has been released with XP support it can't really
Hi,
how do you feel about dropping Windows XP support for Python 3.4? It
would enable us to use some features that are only available on Windows
Vista and newer, for example http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 and
http://bugs.python.org/issue1763 .
PEP 11 says:
A new feature release X.Y.0 will sup
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