[Python-Dev] Windows XP, Python 3.5 and PEP 11 (original) (raw)

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Tue Jun 17 07:01:29 CEST 2014


On 17/06/2014 04:08, Zachary Ware wrote:

On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Victor Stinner <victor.stinner at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I would like to know if Python 3.5 will still support Windows XP or not. Almost all flavors of Windows XP reached the end-of-life in April, 2014 except "Windows XP Embedded". There is even an hack to use Windows upgrades on the desktop flavor using the embedded flavor (by changing a key in the registry). Extracts of the Wikipedia page: This was recently discussed in the "Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler" thread, where Martin declared XP support to be ended [1]. I believe Tim Golden is the only resident Windows dev from whom I haven't seen at least implicit agreement that XP doesn't need further support, so I'd say our support for XP is well and truly dead :) In any case, surely anyone stuck with XP can be happy with Python 3.4. I'm perfectly fine with 3.2 on Win2k!

I think we're justified in dropping XP support, for all the reasons others have given. Like most people, I suppose, I'm support WinXP in various ways (including embedded) because "not supported" != "not working". But those are all running 2.x versions of Python.

It'll be good to be able stretch a little on the Windows API front without having to double-think about where a particular API came in.

TJG



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