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From: "Robinow, David" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Python support for Tcl 8.0
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:15:31 -0400
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 The following post from the Python-Dev mailing list seems to have
ramifications for Cygwin Python.
Comments, anyone?

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From: guido AT python DOT org (Guido van Rossum)
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2002 09:38:47 -0400
Subject: [Python-Dev] Dropping support for Tcl 8.0 and 8.1
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 01 Oct 2002 08:07:22 +0200."
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> In _tkinter.c, there is currently special code for Tcl 8.0 (no Tcl
> objects) and Tcl 8.1 (no Unicode type). Tcl 8.2, 8.3, and 8.4 are
> supported uniformly.
> 
> Can we drop support for those two releases, in Python 2.3?

If it's more work to keep support around than to drop it, sure.  I
agree there's probably nobody who's still using any Tcl version before
8.3 anyway; that's been out several years now.

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