[Idle-dev] Updates to the IDLE Dev Guide

[Serhiy Storchaka]

On 09.05.15 20:56, Terry Reedy wrote:
> Kevin, it looks like tcl.tk only distributes 8.5 and 8.6.  How long has
> it been since 8.4 was distributed?  I am wondering how long tkinter
> should keep code for pre 8.5.

8.4 is still distributed (http://tcl.tk/software/tcltk/8.4.html) but is 
not recommended. Python 3.5 dropped support of 8.4.

I'm not sure that the support of 8.3 and older in current maintained 
releases of Python is not broken. It was not tested long time.