Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Does a modern windows installation actually even *work* if you change > COMSPEC to command.com instead of cmd.exe? And why would anyone ever > do that? Hey, I have a good idea: python can just ignore COMSPEC and > always run cmd.exe. Then you can delete w9xpopen, hooray. We have a process for th

Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread James Y Knight
On Feb 20, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: >> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like >> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to release. We don't >> support Windows 9x since Python 2.6. What this file d

Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread Brian Curtin
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 15:22, anatoly techtonik wrote: > On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" > wrote: > > Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: > >> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like > >> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to r

Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread anatoly techtonik
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 11:10 AM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: >> Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like >> w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to release. We don't >> support Windows 9x since Python 2.6. What this

Re: [Python-Dev] w9xpopen.exe is still in 3.2

2011-02-20 Thread Martin v. Löwis
Am 20.02.2011 07:43, schrieb anatoly techtonik: > Python definitely needs a development Roadmap to avoid things like > w9xpopen.exe slipping off radar from release to release. We don't > support Windows 9x since Python 2.6. What this file does in 3.x > distributions? > > http://bugs.python.org/iss