Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: Chris Angelico Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: installer user interface glitch ? Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 02:52:27 +1100 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <20151101081401312.7CB171092D5B3FA6@griff-18f062b3e> <5cf3c8b2-4095-4e73-98bf-dcc8d776005d@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de e9xXEq3tBS584YtMfaEJtwnOzDV1sxwIU2uWMrwHix1A== Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.014 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'received:209.85.223': 0.03; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.09; '*is*': 0.09; 'situation.': 0.09; 'python': 0.10; '2.7': 0.13; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'received:209.85.223.173': 0.16; 'received:io': 0.16; 'received:psf.io': 0.16; 'subject:user': 0.16; 'unsupported': 0.16; 'why,': 0.16; 'xp?': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.16; 'versions': 0.20; 'windows': 0.20; '2015': 0.20; 'cc:2**0': 0.20; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.20; 'am,': 0.23; 'header:In-Reply- To:1': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'error': 0.27; 'subject: ?': 0.27; 'message-id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.27; 'pep': 0.29; 'release.': 0.29; 'url:peps': 0.29; 'there.': 0.30; 'mention': 0.30; 'url:python': 0.33; 'url:downloads': 0.33; 'running': 0.34; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'python.org': 0.35; 'nov': 0.35; 'url:dev': 0.35; 'asking': 0.35; "isn't": 0.35; 'but': 0.36; 'should': 0.36; 'there': 0.36; 'url:org': 0.36; 'received:209.85': 0.36; 'subject:: ': 0.37; 'operating': 0.37; 'say': 0.37; 'support,': 0.37; 'front': 0.38; 'received:209': 0.38; 'enough': 0.39; 'system.': 0.39; 'where': 0.40; 'here.': 0.62; 'more': 0.63; 'necessarily': 0.63; 'python-list': 0.66; 'offer': 0.66; 'special': 0.73; '11:': 0.84; '95,': 0.84; 'chrisa': 0.84; 'to:none': 0.91; 'info,': 0.93 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=PArxdAOHFEpCSM4U5nYBN5NnO9xfn5BVk7tcJWnoHgg=; b=MHr3buwXNdbMYLlB0wjb6FFCZ2GCgLF6m/mpkq314957BPwxQT3HQ/yLO4kqZfxuEK vEaNSxwLYJRLMijerYiLq2Mbl7nNqwDBrf8ObrQg9dbmE/NCncdBY+eaGoLeAxDqwiIP iUxZXF+CPbOIVNCNCW0Hc7yans2n/u1m9xJna0J+tDbax5PPXc6/t4soWP3NT5tVmvX6 P/hi4o3DQrvC23fCEQo+Ja9eoI7dv2mC+d1danwcEtHG6jTE8+0o/WEYvrF8qkxSTkec 3rmMrHjXtir6dFxZtlL4EuLzSD+xBQu8qfCIYJ1O3/xNLY+FwIwiIA9tXA8OH8E0IYW6 BZ/A== X-Received: by 10.107.10.210 with SMTP id 79mr18716274iok.31.1446393147243; Sun, 01 Nov 2015 07:52:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5cf3c8b2-4095-4e73-98bf-dcc8d776005d@googlegroups.com> X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20+ Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:98051 On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 2:43 AM, rurpy--- via Python-list 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