gh-76773: Update docs mentioning no-longer-supported Windows versions & features #92529
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It looks superfluous. Just py starts the latest Python version, and currently it is the latest Python 3 version.
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Good point, thanks. Would you like me to revert the change to keep py -2, or elide the whole mention as superflous?
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As long as there is an example of using py you can leave it as it's a feature that is still supported.
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I interpret it as you can leave py -2.
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Okay, thanks. I reverted it to that, and also cleaned up the reST code block syntax on or near the lines I touched.
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Thanks @CAM-Gerlach for the PR, and @serhiy-storchaka for merging it 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.9, 3.10, 3.11. |
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…rsions & features (pythonGH-92529) (cherry picked from commit f1bbcba) Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
…rsions & features (pythonGH-92529) (cherry picked from commit f1bbcba) Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
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…ows versions & features (pythonGH-92529) (pythonGH-92610) (cherry picked from commit f1bbcba) Co-authored-by: CAM Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM> Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:serhiy-storchaka
In #76773 , I compiled a detailed list of places where currently or (then-)to-be-unsupported Windows versions were referred to in the context of being current, with a focus on documentation. Unfortunately, as the issue became mired for a time in debates about whether and when it was necessary to drop Windows <8.1 support, I was never able to follow up and update them.
Support for Windows <8.1 was broken in PR #18231 to fix issue #83582 (CVE-2020-8315), dropped officially (albeit rather unceremoniously, with only a short news entry and without documentation updates) in @zooba 's PR #21656 to resolve issue #85584 and clarified a bit at least in the "Using Python on Windows" document in PR #23603 addressing issue #42523 . However, it appears that besides that, few of the others enumerated there were actually updated.
Therefore, this PR updates them, as well as a handful of other mentions I found in the process. In particular, it:
All of the changes should be backport-safe since the removed/updated portions are mostly long-obsolete and support for Windows <8.1 was dropped in Python 3.9, the earliest version still accepting bugfix PRs; I avoided any changes that were potentially version-specific or referred to anything 3.9 or later.