Issue #1706: Require Windows 2000+
Added Py_BUILD_CORE_MODULES macro to set WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION to Windows 2000 for core modules, too
Added -d option to build.bat (same as -c Debug) and fixed warning about /build option
Updated Windows related readme.txt files
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d3d04a5..4610a4d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1562,6 +1562,10 @@
Windows
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+- Patch #1706: Drop support for Win9x, WinME and NT4. Python now requires
+ Windows 2000 or greater. The _WINVER and NTDDI_VERSION macros are set to
+ Win2k for x86/32bit builds and WinXP for AMD64 builds.
+
- Conditionalize definition of _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
and _CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE.