[issue25874] Add notice that XP is not supported on Python 3.5+
New submission from Chris Wilcox: This is a documentation change to make it easier to discover that XP is not a supported OS. Content was taken from the 'whats new' section and added to the top of the main article. ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation files: add-supported-versions-section-windows.diff keywords: patch messages: 256473 nosy: crwilcox, docs@python priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Add notice that XP is not supported on Python 3.5+ type: enhancement versions: Python 3.5, Python 3.6 Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file41319/add-supported-versions-section-windows.diff _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
SilentGhost added the comment: This seems fully covered in the What's new for 3.5: https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.5.html#unsupported-operating-systems ---------- nosy: +SilentGhost resolution: -> not a bug stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
Brett Cannon added the comment: Chris' patch, though, fixes a doc that fails to mention our support policy for Windows: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#microsoft-windows . There should at least be a sentence saying that once Microsoft no longer supports an operating system release then Python also drops support and link to PEP 11 to the full explanation. ---------- nosy: +brett.cannon resolution: not a bug -> status: closed -> open _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
Changes by Brett Cannon <brett@python.org>: ---------- assignee: docs@python -> brett.cannon _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
SilentGhost added the comment: Hm, may be I'm seeing things, but the content of the current what's new section is this: Windows XP is no longer supported by Microsoft, thus, per :PEP:`11`, CPython 3.5 is no longer officially supported on this OS. The proposed patch adds two sentences on top of that: Vista and Later versions of Windows are supported. Please install the latest 3.4 version of CPython if you are using Windows XP. I don't really see how that is a useful addition. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
Roundup Robot added the comment: New changeset 5114871a3ac6 by Brett Cannon in branch '3.5': Issue #25874: Clarify platform support in the "Using Python on Windows" doc. https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/5114871a3ac6 New changeset c6bd004671a7 by Brett Cannon in branch 'default': Merge for issue #25874 https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c6bd004671a7 ---------- nosy: +python-dev _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
Brett Cannon added the comment: The "Using Python on Windows" doc has been updated. Thanks, Chris (who got added to ACKS)! ---------- resolution: -> fixed status: open -> closed _______________________________________ Python tracker <report@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue25874> _______________________________________
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