<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 19:39, Brian Curtin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.curtin@gmail.com">brian.curtin@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:14, "Martin v. Löwis" <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martin@v.loewis.de" target="_blank">martin@v.loewis.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Am 01.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Brian Curtin:<br>
<div>> I'm currently writing a post about the process of removing OS/2 and VMS<br>
> support and thought about a discussion of Windows 2000 some time<br>
> back. <a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.html</a> makes<br>
> a proposal for beginning to walk away from 2000, but doesn't appear to<br>
> come to any conclusion.<br>
><br>
> Was anything decided off the list? I don't see anything in PEP-11 and<br>
> don't see any changes in the installer made around Windows 2000.<br>
<br>
</div>That's what you get for not following your own processes. It seems the<br>
discussion just stopped, with no action. I vaguely recall having made<br>
changes to the installer to produce a warning, but apparently never<br>
got to commit these changes.<br>
<div><br>
> If nothing was decided, should anything be done for 3.3?<br>
<br>
</div>Most certainly. It seems we missed the chance of dropping support for<br>
W2k, so we still can't actively remove any code. However, I'd<br>
<br>
a) add it to PEP 11, and<br>
b) add a warning to the installer<br>
<br>
I stand by<br>
<br>
<a href="http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098101.html" target="_blank">http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098101.html</a><br>
<br>
i.e. if there are patches that happen not to work on W2k, I'd accept<br>
them anyway - anybody interested in W2k would then have to provide<br>
fixes before 3.3rc1.<br>
<br>
So please go ahead and change PEP 11. While you are at it, also threaten<br>
to remove support for systems where the COMSPEC points to <a href="http://command.com" target="_blank">command.com</a><br>
(#2405).<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div> </div></div></div></div>Done and done - <a href="http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b9390aa12855" target="_blank">http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b9390aa12855</a><div>
I'll have a look at the installer and add some type of message.</div>
</blockquote></div><br><div>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. <a href="http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de53c52fbcbf">http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de53c52fbcbf</a> changed the installer to list 3.3.0 as the last Windows 2000 release on the default branch.</div>