[Python-Dev] Python and Windows 2000

["Martin v. Löwis"]

>> If not, I'd like to propose that we phase out that support: the Windows
>> 2.7 installer should display a warning; 3.2 will stop supporting Windows
>> 2000.
> 
>    Is there any reason for this? I can understand dropping Windows 9x
> due to the lack of Unicode support but is there anything missing from
> Windows 2000 that makes supporting it difficult?

See http://bugs.python.org/issue6926

The SDK currently hides symbolic constants from us that people are
asking for.

In addition, we could simplify the code in dl_nt.c around
GetCurrentActCtx and friends, by linking to these functions directly.

Regards,
Martni