[Python-Dev] Moving Python 3.5 on Windows to a new compiler

[Brian Curtin]

On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Zachary Ware
<zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Steve Dower <Steve.Dower at microsoft.com> wrote:
>> Thoughts/comments/concerns?
>
> My only concern is support for elderly versions of Windows, in
> particular: XP.  I seem to recall the last "let's update our MSVC
> version" discussion dying off because of XP support.  Even though MS
> has abandoned it, I'm not sure whether we can yet.
>
> If that's a non-issue, or if we can actually drop XP support, I'm all for it.

Extended support ended in April of this year, so I think we should put
XP as unsupported for 3.5 in PEP 11 -
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/

I seem to remember that we were waiting for this anyway.