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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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Subject: Re: installer user interface glitch ?
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 19:50:38 -0500
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On 11/1/2015 5:28 PM, boB Stepp wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 3:48 PM, Laura Creighton <lac@openend.se> wrote:
>> Actually, adding the XP - do not look here --
>> message for several webpages has been on the pydotorg
>> todo list for more than a week now.
>>
>> Not sure why it hasn't happened.
>>
>> Thank you for the reminder.
>
> I have to confess I do not understand all of the hullabaloo generated
> in this thread, but I think it would be helpful if there were an
> obviously placed minimum requirements note for the download page.
> Something like "Requires Windows Vista or greater ...", etc.

I agree.  A Minimum Requirements box is pretty standard on both boxes 
and web pages.  For Python, a sentence suffices.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy