dropping win98 support? was Re: Python 2.6 and wrapping C libraries on Windows

[illume]

Ah, why is that?

There's still at least 1.1% of people using win98, if you believe this
source of stats:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp

I just noticed that win9x winme and win nt are all being dropped from
python.

I know they are old and crufty, but there's still heaps of people
using them.

Someone pointed me to the pep, where the un-support seems planned:
http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/


Seems like a lot of people using it, so it's still worthwhile making
2.6 work with win98.





On May 1, 10:09 pm, Christian Heimes <li... at cheimes.de> wrote:
> illume schrieb:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > after a little research it appears that win9x is not supported by the
> > msvcr90.dll run time.
>
> > Can you confirm thisLenard?
>
> > Has anyone tested the new python binaries that link to msvcr90.dll on
> > win9x machines?
>
> It doesn't matter to use because Python 2.6 and 3.0 require at least
> Windows 2000 SP4. The 9x, ME and NT series aren't supported any more.
>
> Christian