Am 12.07.2013 03:49, schrieb Ben Hoyt: > I guess it has to be dropped at some stage, but with Windows XP it's a > case of "XP is dead. Long live XP!" There are still an awful lot of XP > boxes out there, and I'd kind hate to see support dropped completely. We > still use it here at home. > > Wikipedia/Net Applications says that Windows XP has still has a full 37% > of market share! > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems)
I'm not planing to shut Windows XP out from Python completely. Users of Python can still use Python 3.3 or 2.7. Python 3.3 will get a final bug fix release after the release of Python 3.4.0 and security fixes until 2017. Windows XP is really, *really* old. It has been released almost 12 years ago. Linux kernel 2.4.0 was released about the same time. Its mainstream support has ended 4 years ago. Do people really expect that they can run the latest version of a program on a decommissioned operating system? Christian _______________________________________________ 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
