On May 2, 8:37 am, "Terry Reedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "illume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > | Ah, why is that? > > Were any of the reasons given inhttp://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/ > unclear? > It appears you are already aware of MS's non-support of Win98
Hello, It seems the main reason is for ease of maintenance. However the Pep title is misleading with regards to win9x+winMe+win2k - which is where my confusion, questions and argument came from. "Title: Removing support for little used platforms" There are still *lots* of people who still use win95, 98, 98se, me, and win2k - as shown by the statistics I linked to in a previous post. If you want more statistics about the number of people using what OS they are fairly easy to find with a search engine. One day win9x will be finally dead, but that's not yet(and the w3c stats show it's usage actually increasing in march!). It is probably way too late in the process to put back code - and as you say no python developers have volunteered. So I won't argue any more for it to come back. We'll just have to recommend a different python implementation than 2.6 or 3.0 for people who want to support people with these old computers. cheers, -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
