Re: [python-win32] Oldest Python version for pywin32?

2015-04-15 Thread Vernon D. Cole
I concur. I am one of the 100 downloads of 2.5 -- and the only reason I download it is to test it, not to use it in production. How many of the other downloaders are like me? Most, I would bet. Dropping 2.5 would allow use of many Python3 features, since 2.6 has the backports for them (print

Re: [python-win32] Oldest Python version for pywin32?

2015-04-15 Thread Tim Golden
On 15/04/2015 10:11, Mark Hammond wrote: Hi Tim, I still build for 2.5 and 3.1, but really only because they do still build. If there's a reasonable reason to drop support for some I doubt it will hurt many people - the sourceforge page should show you download stats, but last I looked 2.5

Re: [python-win32] Oldest Python version for pywin32?

2015-04-15 Thread Mark Hammond
Hi Tim, I still build for 2.5 and 3.1, but really only because they do still build. If there's a reasonable reason to drop support for some I doubt it will hurt many people - the sourceforge page should show you download stats, but last I looked 2.5 was rarely used then, and that was some

[python-win32] Oldest Python version for pywin32?

2015-04-10 Thread Tim Golden
Really addressed to Mark / Roger, but in case anyone else wants to chip in anyway.. What's the oldest Python version still supported by pywin32? I ask because I'm slightly tweaking the [somewhat gnarly] hunt-the-SDK code in setup.py, and I don't want to introduce something which won't build