On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 5:17 PM Victor Stinner <vstin...@python.org> wrote:
> It would be great to have the list of supported platforms per Python > version! > I could see the table in PEP 11 being copied into the release PEPs. > > Maybe supporting new platforms and dropping support for a platform > should be document in What's New in Python x.y. GCC does that for > example. It also *deprecates* support for some platforms. Example: > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/changes.html > > -- > > It's always hard for me to know what is the minimum supported Windows > version. PEP 11 refers to Windows support: > https://peps.python.org/pep-0011/#microsoft-windows > > But I don't know how to get this info from the Microsoft > documentation. I usually dig into Wikipedia articles to check which > Windows version is still supported or not, but I'm confused between > "mainstream support" and "extended support". > It's "free with purchase" and "pay us more and we will keep supporting you". You can think of it as standard versus extended warranties. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/policies/fixed > > For example, which Python version still support Windows 7? Wikipedia > says that Windows 7 mainstream support ended in 2015, and extended > support ended in 2020. But Python still has a Windows 7 SP1 buildbot > for Python 3.8: https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/60 Just because we have a buildbot does not mean we support it. All it means is someone in the community cares enough about Windows 7 to want to know when CPython no longer works. > > > What is the minimum Windows supported by Python 3.10? > I believe it's Windows 8. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/windows https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-81 -Brett > > Victor > > On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:06 PM Christian Heimes <christ...@python.org> > wrote: > > > > On 07/03/2022 18.02, Petr Viktorin wrote: > > >> Why the devguide? I view the list of platforms as important for public > > >> consumption as for the core dev team to know what to (not) accept PRs > > >> for. > > > > > > So, let's put it in the main docs? > > > Yes, I guess the devguide is a weird place to check for this kind of > > > info. But a Python enhancement proposal is even weirder. > > > > > > +1 for our main docs (cpython/Doc/) > > > > Platform support is Python versions specific. Python 3.10 may support > > different version than 3.11 or 3.12. It makes sense to keep the support > > information with the code. > > > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/LJID7Y7RFSCRUYLJS3E56WBGJU2R44E4/ > > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > > -- > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. >
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