[Python-Dev] Python 3.4 and Windows XP: just 45 days until EOL (original) (raw)

Christian Heimes christian at python.org
Fri Jul 12 13:32:52 CEST 2013

Am 12.07.2013 03:49, schrieb Ben Hoyt:

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/Usageshareofoperatingsystems)

I'm not planing to shut Windows XP out from Python completely. Users of Python can still use Python 3.3 or 2.7. Python 3.3 will get a final bug fix release after the release of Python 3.4.0 and security fixes until 2017.

Windows XP is really, really old. It has been released almost 12 years ago. Linux kernel 2.4.0 was released about the same time. Its mainstream support has ended 4 years ago. Do people really expect that they can run the latest version of a program on a decommissioned operating system?

Christian

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