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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 06.06.14 19:31, schrieb Brian Curtin:

>> 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.

We don't actually need to explicitly put XP there, as PEP 11 ties our
support to the Microsoft product life cycle. XP is not supported by
Python anymore.

Regards,
Martin