[Python-Dev] PEP 11: Dropping support for ten year old systems

[Terry Reedy]

On 12/5/2010 4:48 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> I'd like to tighten PEP 11, and declare a policy that systems
> older than ten years at the point of a feature release are not
> supported anymore by default. Older systems where support is still
> maintained need to be explicitly listed in the PEP, along with
> the name of the responsible maintainer (I think this would currently
> only cover OS2/EMX which is maintained by Andrew MacIntyre).
>
> Support for such old platforms can then be removed from the codebase
> immediately, no need to go through a PEP 11 deprecation cycle.
>
> As a consequence, I would then like to remove support for Solaris
> versions older than Solaris 8 (released in January 2000, last updated
> by Sun in 2004) from the configure script for 3.2b2. A number of other
> tests in configure.in could probably also be removed, although I
> personally won't touch them before 3.2.
>
> The other major system affected by this would be Windows 2000, for which
> we already decided to not support it anymore.

WinXP (released August 2001) should be supported a lot longer than 
another year ;-) . It is still supported and installed on new systems.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy