[python-win32] python-win32 is for Python on Windows

[Tim Golden]

The problem here is that changing the name (as opposed to the 
description) would break all sorts of existing links. Frankly, I doubt 
if anyone's actually stopping short of posting to the list merely over a 
doubt as to whether they can ask about 64-bit issues!

TJG

On 27/12/2015 18:33, R Schumacher wrote:
> I think part of the problem is "32" is now antiquated.
>
>
> At 08:29 AM 12/27/2015, mc at mclaveau wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Is "PyWin32" a possible name?
>>
>> @-salutations
>> --
>> Michel Claveau
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 26.12.15 19:01, eryk sun a écrit :
>>> On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Vernon D. Cole
>>> <vernondcole at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 1) this (Python-win32) is not a group for the discussion of Python (in
>>>> general) on Windows platforms.  It is for discussion of a specific
>>>> toolkit
>>>> (pywin32)
>>> Actually, that's not right:
>>>
>>>      python-win32 -- Python on Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)
>>>
>>>      About python-win32:
>>>      All issues related to programming Python on Windows. 32-bit and
>>> 64-bit,
>>>      pywin32 extensions, COM, you name it.
>>>
>>> There was some discussion a bit ago about changing the list name to
>>> "python-windows", because "win32" is a legacy name. (Microsoft changed
>>> the API name to "Windows" a while ago.) The discussion resulted in
>>> changing the list title from "Python on win32" [1]  to "Python on
>>> Windows (32-bit and 64-bit)".
>>>
>>> [1]:
>>> https://web.archive.org/web/20150905161144/https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
>>>
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>>> https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-win32
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