Steve Dower added the comment:
Yep, it's just a thank you and acknowledgement that was in the installer, so I
brought it forward.
However, we removed it a couple of versions ago (with Mark's permission). So
it's certainly not an issue that needs to be addressed now ;)
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Tim Peters added the comment:
The CPython Windows installer has a "thank you" box at the end:
"""
Special Windows thanks to Mark Hammond, without whose years of freely shared
Windows expertise, Python for Windows would still be Python for DOS.
"""
There was no support for Windows in
New submission from Eric V. Smith :
Since this is not a bug in Python, this is not the appropriate place to ask. I
suggest you try the python-list mailing list
https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
And I don't know what it means. I've never heard of that saying before.
Change by chen-y0y0 :
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components: Installation, Windows
nosy: paul.moore, prasechen, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: What does "Python for Windows will still be Python for DOS" mean?
type: performance
versions: Python 3.10,
