From a2186f3c989a9027cca9f5c279b18c4289d48e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sajith Sasidharan Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:07:11 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Add an explanation within newsfragment Why are we changing an unrelated newsfragment? --- newsfragments/3681.minor | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/newsfragments/3681.minor b/newsfragments/3681.minor index a697e6c60..bc84b6b8f 100644 --- a/newsfragments/3681.minor +++ b/newsfragments/3681.minor @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +(The below text is no longer valid: netifaces has released a 64-bit +Python 2.7 wheel for Windows. Ticket #3733 made the switch in CI. We +should be able to test and run Tahoe-LAFS without needing vcpython27 +now.) + Tahoe-LAFS CI now runs tests only on 32-bit Windows. Microsoft has removed vcpython27 compiler downloads from their site, and Tahoe-LAFS needs vcpython27 to build and install netifaces on 64-bit Windows.