Re: installer user interface glitch ?

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Subject	Re: installer user interface glitch ?
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In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 17:56:33 +0000, Grant Edwards writes:
>On 2015-11-01, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
>
>> The whole message of 'get a newer os' is decidedly hard for them.
>> "It works fine, like my 2004 Ford car" they want to tell you.
>
>Except it _doesn't_ work fine, or they wouldn't be complaining.
>
>If you want to run Python 3.5, then XP just doesn't work.  Why they
>think it's Python's fault is the question...
>
>--
>Grant

:)

Actually, the people I talk to are to be forgiven for not understanding
that 3.5 does not work for them given that the installer does not
spit them out with a fail message at the start.

It's the next step.

"Why can you not make a product for my perfectly working system!"

that I was thinking about.

And, to be fair, lots of them are grandparents who want to be able to
see their grandchildren's turtle programs ....

Not the usual case for 'need to download python', to be sure

Laura

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Re: installer user interface glitch ? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-01 18:25 +0100
  Re: installer user interface glitch ? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-01 17:56 +0000
    Re: installer user interface glitch ? Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> - 2015-11-01 19:08 +0100

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