beardypig/streamlink-portable

Win7 compatibility for future releases

leohub2016 opened this issue · 3 comments

leohub2016 commented

Hi team. Recent builds of non-portable streamlink for windows (2.4.0 and above) are dropped win7 support. Is it true, that future versions of portable streamlink will still work on win7?

beardypig commented

The current version of Python used for the portable version is 3.7.9. This will be maintained as long as possible, if a Python 3.8 or Python 3.9 only feature is used in streamlink this will not be possible and streamlink-portable will be updated to the next lowest possible Python version. However, I will not be applying patches to streamlink to maintain Windows 7 support.

tldr; Win7 support will be maintained as long as possible.

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leohub2016 commented

The current version of Python used for the portable version is 3.7.9. This will be maintained as long as possible, if a Python 3.8 or Python 3.9 only feature is used in streamlink this will not be possible and streamlink-portable will be updated to the next lowest possible Python version. However, I will not be applying patches to streamlink to maintain Windows 7 support.

tldr; Win7 support will be maintained as long as possible.

You are the best (the only thing I can answer to this)! Keep up the good work

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beardypig commented

I have to set it up to build with the latest versions of Python 3.6, 3.7, 3.8 and 3.9 that have Windows builds available - so you can chose which version of Python suits you best.

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