[Python-Dev] Windows 2000 Support

[Brian Curtin]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 19:39, Brian Curtin <brian.curtin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 16:14, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>wrote:
>
>> Am 01.05.2011 22:51, schrieb Brian Curtin:
>> > I'm currently writing a post about the process of removing OS/2 and VMS
>> > support and thought about a discussion of Windows 2000 some time
>> > back.
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098074.html makes
>> > a proposal for beginning to walk away from 2000, but doesn't appear to
>> > come to any conclusion.
>> >
>> > Was anything decided off the list? I don't see anything in PEP-11 and
>> > don't see any changes in the installer made around Windows 2000.
>>
>> That's what you get for not following your own processes. It seems the
>> discussion just stopped, with no action. I vaguely recall having made
>> changes to the installer to produce a warning, but apparently never
>> got to commit these changes.
>>
>> > If nothing was decided, should anything be done for 3.3?
>>
>> Most certainly. It seems we missed the chance of dropping support for
>> W2k, so we still can't actively remove any code. However, I'd
>>
>> a) add it to PEP 11, and
>> b) add a warning to the installer
>>
>> I stand by
>>
>> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2010-March/098101.html
>>
>> i.e. if there are patches that happen not to work on W2k, I'd accept
>> them anyway - anybody interested in W2k would then have to provide
>> fixes before 3.3rc1.
>>
>> So please go ahead and change PEP 11. While you are at it, also threaten
>> to remove support for systems where the COMSPEC points to command.com
>> (#2405).
>>
>
> Done and done - http://hg.python.org/peps/rev/b9390aa12855
> I'll have a look at the installer and add some type of message.
>

It turns out that you did make the change at some point for 2.7 being the
last, but there was no corresponding 3.x version chosen.
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/de53c52fbcbf changed the installer to list
3.3.0 as the last Windows 2000 release on the default branch.
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