On Fri, Feb 24, 2006, Michael Foord wrote:
Georg Brandl wrote:
Neal Norwitz wrote:
Martin and I were talking about dropping support for older versions of Windows (of the non-NT flavor). We both thought that it was reasonable to stop supporting Win9x (including WinME) in Python 2.6. I updated PEP 11 to reflect this.
The Python 2.5 installer will present a warning message on the systems which will not be supported in Python 2.6.
Hey, someone even wanted to continue supporting DOS...
A lot of people are still using Windows 98. But I guess if noone is volunteering to maintain the code...
DOS has some actual utility for low-grade devices and is overall a simpler platform to deliver code for. At the standard 18-month release cycle, it will be beginning of 2008 for the release of 2.6, which is ten years after Win98. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis