On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 19:39, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:14, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de>wrote: > >> Am 01.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Brian Curtin: >> > I'm currently writing a post about the process of removing OS/2 and VMS >> > support and thought about a discussion of Windows 2000 some time >> > back. >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.html makes >> > a proposal for beginning to walk away from 2000, but doesn't appear to >> > come to any conclusion. >> > >> > Was anything decided off the list? I don't see anything in PEP-11 and >> > don't see any changes in the installer made around Windows 2000. >> >> That's what you get for not following your own processes. It seems the >> discussion just stopped, with no action. I vaguely recall having made >> changes to the installer to produce a warning, but apparently never >> got to commit these changes. >> >> > If nothing was decided, should anything be done for 3.3? >> >> Most certainly. It seems we missed the chance of dropping support for >> W2k, so we still can't actively remove any code. However, I'd >> >> a) add it to PEP 11, and >> b) add a warning to the installer >> >> I stand by >> >> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098101.html >> >> i.e. if there are patches that happen not to work on W2k, I'd accept >> them anyway - anybody interested in W2k would then have to provide >> fixes before 3.3rc1. >> >> So please go ahead and change PEP 11. While you are at it, also threaten >> to remove support for systems where the COMSPEC points to command.com >> (#2405). >> > > Done and done - http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b9390aa12855 > I'll have a look at the installer and add some type of message. > It turns out that you did make the change at some point for 2.7 being the last, but there was no corresponding 3.x version chosen. http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de53c52fbcbf changed the installer to list 3.3.0 as the last Windows 2000 release on the default branch.
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