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Author	eryksun
Recipients	brett.cannon, eric.snow, eryksun, jkloth, lukasz.langa, mattip, ncoghlan, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
Date	2019-03-05.00:27:35
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Message-id	<1551745655.6.0.203418349084.issue36085@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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> Alternatively, I'm totally happy to make a three month exception to > PEP 11 and just drop Win7 completely for 3.8. But I think that needs > to be made official as early as possible Windows 7 is still used on about 40% of Windows desktops, and will likely remain popular for a few years after its scheduled end of life in January 2020. Would this be a hard drop, i.e. would installing 3.8 be prevented in Windows 7? Or would it install but require users to manually install KB2533623?

> Alternatively, I'm totally happy to make a three month exception to 
> PEP 11 and just drop Win7 completely for 3.8. But I think that needs 
> to be made official as early as possible

Windows 7 is still used on about 40% of Windows desktops, and will likely remain popular for a few years after its scheduled end of life in January 2020. Would this be a hard drop, i.e. would installing 3.8 be prevented in Windows 7? Or would it install but require users to manually install KB2533623?

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Date	User	Action	Args
2019-03-05 00:27:35	eryksun	set	recipients: + eryksun, brett.cannon, paul.moore, ncoghlan, tim.golden, jkloth, lukasz.langa, eric.snow, zach.ware, mattip, steve.dower
2019-03-05 00:27:35	eryksun	set	messageid: <1551745655.6.0.203418349084.issue36085@roundup.psfhosted.org>
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