[Python-Dev] Is Windows XP still supported on Python 2.7? (original) (raw)

Victor Stinner victor.stinner at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 05:04:52 EDT 2017

Hi,

We have a Windows XP buildbot for Python 2.7, run by David Bolen: http://buildbot.python.org/all/builders/x86%20Windows%20XP%202.7/

test_bsddb3 fails randomly on this buildbot: http://bugs.python.org/issue30778

But Windows XP clearly reached its end-of-life, Microsoft doesn't support it anymore. So my question is if it makes sense to spend time on it?

We have a rule for new x.y.0 released, but not if a Microsoft Windows support expires during the lifetime of a Python release (2.7 here): https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#microsoft-windows

Firefox made great efforts to support Windows XP last years, but they decided to drop support last March with Firefox 52, last release supporting XP and Visa: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-windows-xp-and-vista

Victor