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Re: installer user interface glitch ?

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: installer user interface glitch ?
Date 2015-11-01 19:50 -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

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Re: installer user interface glitch ? Chris Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com> - 2015-11-01 11:06 +0100
  Re: installer user interface glitch ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-01 07:43 -0800
    Re: installer user interface glitch ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 02:52 +1100
      Re: installer user interface glitch ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-01 08:24 -0800
        Re: installer user interface glitch ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-11-02 03:43 +1100
          Re: installer user interface glitch ? rurpy@yahoo.com - 2015-11-01 11:41 -0800
            Re: installer user interface glitch ? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-11-01 20:46 +0000
            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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