Chris Angelico wrote, on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 12:02 AM > > On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Deborah Swanson > <pyt...@deborahswanson.net> wrote: > > So perhaps now you might be agreeing with me that investing > in Windows > > and Visual Studio now is a shortsighted move that will > likely result > > in long term grief for Python? Maybe reconsidering it? > > Not at all. I never said Windows wasn't important - just that > it isn't secure. Having Python able to run on Windows is a > HUGE benefit for the people who use Windows. Obviously it has > a cost, and a quite significant one, but it's not a bad > decision on the part of the Python core devs. > > But if Windows were to die a quiet death (or, as some have > predicted, progressively morph into being a skin atop Linux, > and then get spun off as an open source project while > Microsoft concentrates on Azure), it would in my opinion be a > great boon for the world. > > ChrisA
Indeed. And it made me glad to read earlier in this thread that Python devs are leaving themselves a way out of this partnersip with Visual Studio, in the form of only agreeing to use the VS for currently supported Windows (or something like that). I suppose that's at least one reason why XP has become a pariah in the Python world, and I still predict grief coming from the Python-Visual Studio alliance. But so it goes. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list