It would be great to have the list of supported platforms per Python version!
I could see the table in PEP 11 being copied into the release PEPs.
Maybe supporting new platforms and dropping support for a platform
should be document in What's New in Python x.y. GCC does that for
example. It also *deprecates* support for some platforms. Example:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-9/changes.html
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It's always hard for me to know what is the minimum supported Windows
version. PEP 11 refers to Windows support:
https://peps.python.org/pep-0011/#microsoft-windows
But I don't know how to get this info from the Microsoft
documentation. I usually dig into Wikipedia articles to check which
Windows version is still supported or not, but I'm confused between
"mainstream support" and "extended support".
It's "free with purchase" and "pay us more and we will keep supporting you". You can think of it as standard versus extended warranties.
For example, which Python version still support Windows 7? Wikipedia
says that Windows 7 mainstream support ended in 2015, and extended
support ended in 2020. But Python still has a Windows 7 SP1 buildbot
for Python 3.8: https://buildbot.python.org/all/#/builders/60
Just because we have a buildbot does not mean we support it. All it means is someone in the community cares enough about Windows 7 to want to know when CPython no longer works.
What is the minimum Windows supported by Python 3.10?
I believe it's Windows 8.
-Brett
Victor
On Mon, Mar 7, 2022 at 8:06 PM Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> wrote:
>
> On 07/03/2022 18.02, Petr Viktorin wrote:
> >> Why the devguide? I view the list of platforms as important for public
> >> consumption as for the core dev team to know what to (not) accept PRs
> >> for.
> >
> > So, let's put it in the main docs?
> > Yes, I guess the devguide is a weird place to check for this kind of
> > info. But a Python enhancement proposal is even weirder.
>
>
> +1 for our main docs (cpython/Doc/)
>
> Platform support is Python versions specific. Python 3.10 may support
> different version than 3.11 or 3.12. It makes sense to keep the support
> information with the code.
>
> Christian
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