[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Zackery Spytz added the comment: See also #29075. -- nosy: +ZackerySpytz ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Steve Dower added the comment: I'd rather leave it specified as it is in PEP 11, though perhaps specifying it explicitly in the release schedule PEPs would be helpful? Up to release managers. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: AFAIK, it was specifically Martin Loewis who did not want a specific list in PEP 11. Since he is long inactive, I think you and Steve should feel free to change that. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by STINNER Victor : -- pull_requests: +10927, 10928, 10929 stage: resolved -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by STINNER Victor : -- pull_requests: +10927 stage: resolved -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___ Python-bugs-list

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by STINNER Victor : -- pull_requests: +10927, 10928 stage: resolved -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

STINNER Victor added the comment: > I failed to fix failures on my PR. It's now too late for Python 3.7. I will try to redo PR 5231 in small chunks to better control the risk. I extracted os.cpu_count() changed as a new PR: PR 11457. I already updated time.monotonic() documentation in a

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

STINNER Victor added the comment: Hello 2018, I reopen the issue and change the version to Python 3.8. -- resolution: out of date -> status: closed -> open versions: +Python 3.8 -Python 3.7 ___ Python tracker

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

STINNER Victor added the comment: I failed to fix failures on my PR. It's now too late for Python 3.7. If someone is interested to drop Vista support from Python 3.8, I suggest to open a new issue instead. -- resolution: -> out of date stage: patch review -> resolved status: open

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by Alexey Izbyshev : -- nosy: +izbyshev ___ Python tracker ___ ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I personally think it was a mistake to stop being explicit about Windows support in PEP 11. The rationale was to avoid having to update it. But it is updated for other systems; an explicit list is needed somewhere (as illustrated by my

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

STINNER Victor added the comment: Terry: see my notes about platforms suported by Python. http://vstinner.readthedocs.io/cpython.html#supported-platforms The PEP 11 doesn't want to have an explicit list of supported Windows versions, but I'm unable to *guess* which

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Zachary Ware added the comment: 3.4 was the last version to support XP. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I believe that PEP 11 originally said, or should have said "3.6 supports Windows Vista and newer." I believe 3.5 supports XP, so it should be "please install Python 3.5". -- ___ Python tracker

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by Terry J. Reedy : -- Removed message: https://bugs.python.org/msg310295 ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I believe that PEP 11 originally said, or should have said "3.6 supports Windows Vista and newer." I believe 3.5 supports XP, so it should be "please install Python 3.4". -- nosy: +terry.reedy

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STINNER Victor added the comment: > If you don't get to it, reassign the bug to me once you've merged the first > part and I'll look at the installer. I like that :-) Will me. Right now, my PR doesn't compile, I broke something and I don't understand the error.

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Steve Dower added the comment: The only changes necessary in the installer should be in PythonBootstrapperApplication.cpp to make it an error when run on pre-Win7 OS. The pattern is already there, and the string references are in Tools/msi/bundle/Default.wxl If you

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

Change by STINNER Victor : -- keywords: +patch pull_requests: +5078 stage: -> patch review ___ Python tracker ___

[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista in Python 3.7

New submission from STINNER Victor : https://docs.python.org/dev/using/windows.html#supported-versions "As specified in PEP 11, a Python release only supports a Windows platform while Microsoft considers the platform under extended support. This means that Python 3.7