A Breezy status update

[Mark Grandi]

Bazaar still works, right (albeit slower) if you don't have the C extensions installed, so even if there are no 32 bit builds, as long as python is there, it should still work, right?

~Mark

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 12:16, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: "Martin (gzlist)" <gzlist at googlemail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 20:03:24 +0100
>> 
>> On 15/06/2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Any special reasons why did you need to do that?  Windows XP still has
>>> a lot of installations around the world.
>> 
>> What I removed was the narrow win32 api calls and other bits of Windows 98 code.
> 
> So you actually removed support for Windows 9X, not for W2K and XP, is
> that right?
> 
>> However, no XP support is a statement of realities along the lines of
>> to PEP 11† - we can't really claim support for OSes that are not
>> themselves supported.
> 
> I'm not sure I understand what that means in practice.  All I was
> suggesting is that you don't intentionally start use APIs which cannot
> work on XP, without some fallback.  Is that possible?  I don't see
> how that would go against PEP 11†, since even Python 3.4 still
> supports XP, AFAIU, and breezy will support Python 2.7.
> 
>> We'll likely make a 64-bit Python 2.7 release that may work on most of
>> the Windows NT lineage , but I don't plan to test that.
> 
> Will there not be 32-bit builds as well?  If so, you lose XP just
> because of that.
> 
> Thanks.
>