[Python-Dev] Is Windows XP still supported on Python 2.7? (original) (raw)
Alex Walters tritium-list at sdamon.com
Mon Jul 24 05:38:07 EDT 2017
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The promise that PEP-11 is making is that as long as a python was released while Microsoft still supported that OS, and that python is still supported, there will still be a python that works for you. So, yes, Windows XP is long since unsupported by Microsoft, but a disturbing number of people still run it. (I think the NHS in the UK still runs embedded windows XP, just to name a big one). Yes, it's a support burden, but it's on the support burden version of python anyways. 2.7 is a very slow moving branch so it shouldn't be THAT big of a pain for the last 2 years of python 2 support.
-----Original Message----- From: Python-Dev [mailto:python-dev-bounces+tritium-_ _list=sdamon.com at python.org] On Behalf Of Victor Stinner Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 5:05 AM To: Python Dev <Python-Dev at python.org>; David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com> Subject: [Python-Dev] Is Windows XP still supported on Python 2.7?
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/ testbsddb3 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
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