[Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Fri Jun 6 19:31:53 CEST 2014

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:

Thoughts/comments/concerns? My only concern is support for elderly versions of Windows, in particular: XP. I seem to recall the last "let's update our MSVC version" discussion dying off because of XP support. Even though MS has abandoned it, I'm not sure whether we can yet. If that's a non-issue, or if we can actually drop XP support, I'm all for it.

Extended support ended in April of this year, so I think we should put XP as unsupported for 3.5 in PEP 11 - http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/

I seem to remember that we were waiting for this anyway.

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