On Fri, Feb 24, 2006, Michael Foord wrote: > Georg Brandl wrote: >> Neal Norwitz wrote: >> >>> Martin and I were talking about dropping support for older versions of >>> Windows (of the non-NT flavor). We both thought that it was >>> reasonable to stop supporting Win9x (including WinME) in Python 2.6. >>> I updated PEP 11 to reflect this. >>> >>> The Python 2.5 installer will present a warning message on the systems >>> which will not be supported in Python 2.6. >> >> Hey, someone even wanted to continue supporting DOS... > > A lot of people are still using Windows 98. But I guess if noone is > volunteering to maintain the code... DOS has some actual utility for low-grade devices and is overall a simpler platform to deliver code for. At the standard 18-month release cycle, it will be beginning of 2008 for the release of 2.6, which is ten years after Win98. -- Aahz (aahz at pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis
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