[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

2021-03-24 Thread Mitja kocjančič
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: not sure about the strategies here but maybe a better approach would be to kill support for unsupported version of windows in a major release since I guess python 3 was a complete rewrite of python2 (at least the low level side I assume

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

2021-03-23 Thread Mitja kocjančič
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: doh, thats unfortunate I was too late to complain, and now its all gone oh well, I guess people will not roll back commits now, I hoped windows 7 supported could be kept at least til python4 (or when microsoft completly abandons win7 (when the API

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

2021-03-23 Thread Mitja kocjančič
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: I have to agree with msg389225, I use windows 7 on my dev machine as well as I use some programs and devices that unfortionatly do not work on windows 10 so update is not possible, now it would be realy anoying that I would loose python support as well