X-Received: by 10.129.103.139 with SMTP id b133mr14954536ywc.24.1446392615082; Sun, 01 Nov 2015 07:43:35 -0800 (PST) X-Received: by 10.50.92.41 with SMTP id cj9mr118634igb.1.1446392615051; Sun, 01 Nov 2015 07:43:35 -0800 (PST) Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!c107no3882799qgd.1!news-out.google.com!z4ni42934ign.0!nntp.google.com!i2no1430697igv.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 07:43:34 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.183.81.59; posting-account=h7ZmAgoAAAChnNHfIDF1M6YGHuonryl5 NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.183.81.59 References: <20151101081401312.7CB171092D5B3FA6@griff-18f062b3e> User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <5cf3c8b2-4095-4e73-98bf-dcc8d776005d@googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: installer user interface glitch ? From: rurpy@yahoo.com Injection-Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2015 15:43:35 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98050 On 11/01/2015 03:06 AM, Chris Warrick wrote: > On 1 November 2015 at 09:23, t_ciorba--- via Python-list > wrote: >> >> hi, i am not sure what is wrong, but after launching the installer >> for windows XPsp3 python-3.5.0.exe i couldnt see what i have to >> select, it was a white board and the only button on it was >> "cancel". here is a screen of it: > > Windows XP is not supported. Please upgrade to a modern version of > Windows, or switch to Linux. (you could also use 3.4.3, but Windows > XP is insecure, and more apps will follow suit.) Why, oh why, do the python.org front page and other pages that offer a Windows download not say a word about it not running on Windows XP? Even if one is anal enough to go to the page about the 3.5 release. https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-350/ a page with a lot of Windows-specific info, there is not a word about XP. Or perhaps the number of posts to this list are declining and having people download Python-3.5, have it fail, and then ask why here is part of a secret plan to increase list volume?