It would be great to have the list of supported platforms per Python version! 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 -- 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". 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 What is the minimum Windows supported by Python 3.10? 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.
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