[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Change by Steve Dower : -- resolution: -> fixed stage: patch review -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Change by Ken Jin : -- nosy: +kj nosy_count: 14.0 -> 15.0 pull_requests: +25026 pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/26429 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: > If we had a dedicated maintainer who was supporting Win7 and making releases > for it, then we (i.e. they) could support it. But then, there's nothing to > stop someone doing that already, and even to stop them charging money for it > if they want (which

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Steve Dower added the comment: > not sure about the strategies here but maybe a better approach would be to > kill support for unsupported version of windows in a major release We do, but the "major" release is the second field of the version number (you can think of the first field as the

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Mitja kocjančič added the comment: not sure about the strategies here but maybe a better approach would be to kill support for unsupported version of windows in a major release since I guess python 3 was a complete rewrite of python2 (at least the low level side I assume it was) and it

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Steve Dower added the comment: FWIW, the installer change was only to forcibly warn naive users that they need to stick with the previous version, so I wouldn't read much into it. It's easily rolled back. The real issue is that we need to decide how to drop support _somehow_, and following

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: > If Win8-only calls are not used, then presumably it should still build and > run on Windows 7, presumably with the flag flipped back to Win7. And if there > are Win8-only calls used and the flag is set to Win7+, I assume that the MSVC > compiler will

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

C.A.M. Gerlach added the comment: In my limited understanding, all PR #15951 does is set a compiler macro to allow use of Win API calls present on >=Win8 instead of >=Win7. If Win8-only calls are not used, then presumably it should still build and run on Windows 7, presumably with the flag

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Mitja kocjančič added the comment: doh, thats unfortunate I was too late to complain, and now its all gone oh well, I guess people will not roll back commits now, I hoped windows 7 supported could be kept at least til python4 (or when microsoft completly abandons win7 (when the API will

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Alexey Izbyshev added the comment: As far as I understand, commit [1] explicitly prevents CPython from running on Windows 7, and it's included into 3.9. So it seems to be too late to complain, despite that, according to Wikipedia, more than 15% of all Windows PCs are still running Windows 7

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Mitja kocjančič added the comment: I have to agree with msg389225, I use windows 7 on my dev machine as well as I use some programs and devices that unfortionatly do not work on windows 10 so update is not possible, now it would be realy anoying that I would loose python support as well

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: As a data point, my Windows development VM uses Windows 7. It would be a major annoyance for me to reinstall a new development VM from scratch (going through the usual hurdles to have a usable development environment would probably be a full day of work,

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7

Change by Gregory P. Smith : -- title: Drop support of Windows Vista and 7 in Python 3.9 -> Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7 type: -> enhancement ___ Python tracker