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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 still has a full 37% of market share! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage\_share\_of\_operating\_systems)

What about just have these attributes/functions on OSes that support it, for example os.kill on Python 2.6 vs 2.7?

-Ben

On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> wrote:

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 support all Windows releases
� whose extended support phase is not yet expired.

For Python 3.4 is going to be a very close call. According to PEP 429
3.4.0 final is scheduled for February 22, 2014\. The extended support
phase of Windows XP ends merely 45 days later on April 8, 2014\. Do we
really have to restrict ourselves to an API that is going to become
deprecated 45 days after the estimated release of 3.4.0?

Christian
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