On 29/10/2015 16:14, Steffen Herzfeldt wrote:
I just wanted to let you know that your program just doesn't work on WinXP. I guess you just think "Linux is better anyway" to which i agree until it comes to games requiring directx, but that doesn't change the fact that the installer was labeled as working on win32 systems.
Others have replied that the installer has a fix for the next release which will highlight this sooner. I would point out that we have gradually dropped support for *several* win32-based systems over the last few years, more or less following Microsoft's own deprecation regime. Win9x was dropped in 2.6; 2000 was dropped in 3.3.
There's a balance to be had in everything: every system we support adds some burden of maintenance. There's no pro-Linux conspiracy here: just the development team making pragmatic choices about maintenance and support.
TJG -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
