[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: not sure about the strategies here but maybe a better approach would be to kill support for unsupported version of windows in a major release since I guess python 3 was a complete rewrite of python2 (at least the low level side I assume it was) and it would be easier for people to remeber (eg, if I have to rewrite my app because python4 has a major language differences I might as well drop support for older OSes in it), eg, python2 works on XP, python3 works on vista and up, python4 works on windows 10 for instance, I didn't even know you can run python3 on XP, I always thought that python2.7 is the last version that would run there and since the code to support windows 7 is still present (almost, just the installer change would need to be rolleed back and some compiler declaratives: https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/0b72ccff56fb47e14f7b1f6590eafff8d104c229 https://github.com/izbyshev/cpython/commit/6a65eba44bfd82ccc8bed4b5c6dd6637549955d5 I see no reason to touch it (it probably just stays there serving its purpose) and when python4 comes along (if its a rewrite then windows 7 hacks (would just not be written anymore) -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue32592> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: doh, thats unfortunate I was too late to complain, and now its all gone oh well, I guess people will not roll back commits now, I hoped windows 7 supported could be kept at least til python4 (or when microsoft completly abandons win7 (when the API will change as well, just like with python3 there was python2.7 which was like a LST release for ubuntu) -- ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue32592> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue32592] Drop support of Windows Vista and Windows 7
Mitja kocjančič added the comment: I have to agree with msg389225, I use windows 7 on my dev machine as well as I use some programs and devices that unfortionatly do not work on windows 10 so update is not possible, now it would be realy anoying that I would loose python support as well since I use one device with python that does not work on win10 so I am in favour that python keeps the workarounds and fallback code for Windows 7 at least until ESU supports ends (since if its a dead code why would you remove it just leave it in, if it works well and you don't touch it often it does no harm) -- nosy: +veso266 ___ Python tracker <https://bugs.python.org/issue32592> ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
