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 20:02 -0500
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On 11/1/2015 10:54 AM, Michiel Overtoom wrote:
>
>> On 01 Nov 2015, at 16:43, rurpy--- via Python-list
>> <python-list@python.org> 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?
>
> I'm also curious why Python 3.5 won't run on Windows XP. Which
> features does it use that require Windows 7 or higher?

The initial issue was some system functions that are new in Vista.  Then 
came MS's new-with-Win10 toolset that does not support XP.

> Or is the
> decision to not support Windows XP based on Microsoft ending the
> product support lifecycle for XP?

As I explained in another message, it was the other way around, in a 
sense.  As long as MS supported XP, Windows CPython devs either 
refrained from using new not-in-xp features or maintained old 
workarounds.  The has been more or less the same policy for other 
versions of Windows.

-- 
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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