[Python-Dev] Python as a Metro-style App

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Jan 11 01:20:21 CET 2012


Am 09.01.2012 07:13, schrieb Jeff Hardy:
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:
>> Depending on the extent of removed/disabled functionality, it might not
>> be very interesting to have a Metro port at all.
> 
> Win 8 is practically a new OS target - the nt module may need to be
> replaced with a metro module to handle it well.

No, it's not. Everything continues to work just fine on Windows 8,
as long as we keep developing desktop apps.

Only if Metro Apps are the target things may need to be replaced (but
only very few changes are necessary to the nt module to make it compile).

Regards,
Martin


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