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Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 01:40:29 +1000
Subject: Re: broken install?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 1:26 AM,  <paul.hermeneutic@gmail.com> wrote:
> The installer should detect that it is being run on an unsupported system
> and do something helpful.

Fair point. Want to raise a tracker issue on bugs.python.org about it?

ChrisA