[Python-Dev] Python 3.4 and Windows XP: just 45 days until EOL

[Ethan Furman]

On 07/11/2013 04:58 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
>
> how do you feel about dropping Windows XP support for Python 3.4? It
> would enable us to use some features that are only available on Windows
> Vista and newer, for example http://bugs.python.org/issue6926 and
> http://bugs.python.org/issue1763 .
>
> PEP 11 says:
>    A new feature release X.Y.0 will support all Windows releases
>    whose extended support phase is not yet expired.
>
> For Python 3.4 is going to be a very close call. According to PEP 429
> 3.4.0 final is scheduled for February 22, 2014. The extended support
> phase of Windows XP ends merely 45 days later on April 8, 2014. Do we
> really have to restrict ourselves to an API that is going to become
> deprecated 45 days after the estimated release of 3.4.0?

Just because Microsoft no longer supports it doesn't mean there aren't still a lot of machines using it.  Of course, I 
suppose those folks can just stick with 3.3.  ;)

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~Ethan~