On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:41, Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 15:37, Catalin Iacob <iacobcata...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:43 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> >> wrote: >> ... >>> P.S. Here is my personal list of requirements and non-requirements: >> ... >>> - must generate binaries that run on Windows XP >> >> I recently read about Firefox switching to VS2010 and therefore >> needing to drop support for Windows 2000, XP RTM (no service pack) and >> XP SP1. Indeed, [1] confirms that the VS2010 runtime (it's not clear >> if the C one, the C++ one or both) needs XP SP2 or higher. >> >> Just thought I'd share this so that an informed decision can be made, >> in my opinion it would be ok for Python 3.3 to drop everything prior >> to XP SP2. >> >> Maybe not very relevant, but [2] has some mention of statistics for >> Firefox usage on systems prior to XP SP2. >> >> [1] >> http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/526821/executables-built-with-visual-c-2010-do-not-run-on-windows-xp-prior-to-sp2 >> [2] >> http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/archives/2012/01/end_of_firefox_win2k.html > > We already started moving forward with dropping Windows 2000 prior to > this coming up. > http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2011-May/111159.html was > the discussion (which links an older discussion) and PEP-11 > (http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/) was updated accordingly.
Sorry, hit send too soon... Anyway, I can't imagine many of our users (and their users) are still using pre-SP2. It was released in 2004 and was superseded by SP3 and two entire OS releases. I don't know of a reliable way of figuring out whether or not pre-SP2 is a measurable demographic for us, but I can't imagine it's enough to make us hold up the move for another ~2 years. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com