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

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Ben Finney writes:
 > "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
 > 
 > > I don't see any good reason to take into account what Microsoft does
 > > or doesn't support.
 > 
 > It seems you're advocating a position quite ad odds with
 > <URL:http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#id7>.

Not at all.  The first thing that the PEP says about unsupporting code
is:

    Unsupporting platforms

    If a certain platform that currently has special code in it is
    deemed to be without Python users, 

What a vendor supports is only a heuristic.  Existence of users comes
first.

Note that the policy says that some Windows platforms *will* be
supported.  It doesn't say others will be unsupported (except
implicitly: 3 years after the last version of Visual Studio capable of
building releases for that platform goes out of extended support, the
build infrastructure will be removed).

I don't see a good reason to change the PEP.