[python-win32] Oldest Python version for pywin32?

[Andreas Holtz]

I am one 2.5 user, too.
Reason is, that thanks to 4Suite (which is a fantastic XML framework) we are bound to 2.5.
I didn't find a better XML framework for Python but it's not gonna developed further and will not be
ported to 3.x (reminds me of contacting Jeremy Kloth for a port to a newer Python version).

But on the other hand, I don't download PyWin regulary and stick with the version we are currently
using (214, I think). If a piece of software works fine (enough), there is no need to downloading a
newer version. So see it as a complement that people are happy with the software :-)

Vernon D. Cole schrieb am 15.04.2015 um 15:59:
> I concur.  I am one of the 100 downloads of 2.5 -- and the only reason I download it is to test it,
> not to use it in production.  How many of the other downloaders are like me? Most, I would bet.
> Dropping 2.5 would allow use of many Python3 features, since 2.6 has the backports for them (print
> function, "{}".format(), byte literals, and especially "except ... as"). It would simplify the
> Python code in the library.
> 
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk <mailto:mail at timgolden.me.uk>> wrote:
> 
>     On 15/04/2015 10:11, Mark Hammond wrote:
>     > Hi Tim,
>     >Â  Â I still build for 2.5 and 3.1, but really only because they do still
>     > build. If there's a reasonable reason to drop support for some I doubt
>     > it will hurt many people - the sourceforge page should show you download
>     > stats, but last I looked 2.5 was rarely used then, and that was some
>     > time ago!
> 
> 
>     FWIW the sf page for build 219 shows less than 100 downloads for 2.5/6
>     and 3.1/2.
> 
>     Unsuprisingly 2.7 dominates with 3,000 downloads at 32-bit (2,000 at
>     64-bit).
> 
>     3.3 comes in just over 100 and 3.4/5 each a few hundreds.
> 
>     So I feel no particular compunction about dropping forward support for
>     2.6 and lower and 3.2 and lower. (Could say 2.5/3.1 but it's the same
>     SDK level I think).
> 
>     TJG
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