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Re: installer user interface glitch ?

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Subject Re: installer user interface glitch ?
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On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list
<python-list@python.org> wrote:
> 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.

A partial answer to that is in PEP 11:

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0011/#microsoft-windows

Windows XP isn't special here. There's no mention of Python 2.7 not
working on Windows 95, because it's simply an unsupported operating
system. The only reason that people keep coming asking about XP and
not (say) Win2K is that there are a lot more XP boxes out there. Do
the other download pages need to stipulate which versions of which
OSes they support, or should that be left up to the installer?

There *is* a plan to have the installer give a better error message
for this situation. But I don't think the web site necessarily has to
have noise about old versions of OSes. Where would you draw the line?

ChrisA

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          Re: installer user interface glitch ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-01 11:41 -0800
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            Re: installer user interface glitch ? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-01 22:48 +0100
              Re: installer user interface glitch ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-02 07:53 -0800
            Re: installer user interface glitch ? boB Stepp <robertvstepp@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 16:28 -0600
            Re: installer user interface glitch ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 09:38 +1100
            Re: installer user interface glitch ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-01 19:50 -0500
          Re: installer user interface glitch ? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2015-11-02 12:32 +1100
            Re: installer user interface glitch ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 12:50 +1100
        Re: installer user interface glitch ? alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-11-03 09:04 +0000
    Re: installer user interface glitch ? Michiel Overtoom <motoom@xs4all.nl> - 2015-11-01 16:54 +0100
    Re: installer user interface glitch ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-11-01 20:02 -0500

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