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Fix missing symbols in win32com.shell.shell: Drop support for Vista, set Windows 7 as the minimal Windows version.#2487

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Fix missing symbols in win32com.shell.shell: Drop support for Vista, set Windows 7 as the minimal Windows version.#2487
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@Avasam Avasam commented Mar 9, 2025

Fixes #2486

Vista support's extended end date was Apr 11, 2017.

Also note that Python 3.8 was also the last CPython version to offer out of the box support for Windows 7 / windows Server 2008 (which are EOL since January 14, 2020). So these checks were already on their way out after #2413

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@Avasam Avasam changed the title Drop support for Vista, set Windows 7 as the minimal Windows version. Fix missing symbols in win32com.shell.shell: Drop support for Vista, set Windows 7 as the minimal Windows version. Mar 9, 2025
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As of build 305, installation .exe files have been deprecated; see
https://mhammond.github.io/pywin32_installers.html .

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oops, sorry, forgot to push the post-release change, I've done that now.

@Avasam Avasam merged commit 735e0c6 into mhammond:main Mar 10, 2025
@Avasam Avasam deleted the Bump-WINVER-to-0x0601 branch March 10, 2025 01:54
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