On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:13 AM, Orestis Markou <orestis@orestis.gr> wrote:

On 30 Ïêô 2013, at 12:34 ð.ì., Glyph <glyph@twistedmatrix.com> wrote:


On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:45 AM, Kevin Horn <kevin.horn@gmail.com> wrote:

It's also worth noting that there are a fair number of people (at least I know some) who use their old XP licenses for testing Windows software in VMs, especially if they're usually working in Linux or Mac OS X.

Do you, yourself do this?

I used to do that, but nowadays use the VMs Microsoft provides for testing webpages under IE [1] and multiple windows environments. Just download your favorite flavor and run. I'm not sure about limitations they might have, but I was able to install other software just fine.


It's worth noting that MS still provides XP images on this site, though I suppose that may (probably will) change when XP extended support ends.  With luck, maybe that means I can finally stop caring about IE6 entirely.  I'm probably not that lucky though...

In any case I think Twisted should keep support for XP until extended support ends, or at least until we know what the user base looks like _after_ extended support ends.  I'm not too familiar with the overhead of doing so, however, so it's not that informed of an opinion, I'm afraid.
 
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Kevin Horn