python doesn't install

[Chris Warrick]

On 2 November 2015 at 09:28, Dave Farrance <df at see.replyto.invalid> wrote:
> Yes, I've read the justifications. Why list all the non-supported OSs?
> And the explanation about each version of Python being supported just
> for the supported versions of Windows upon its release is in the
> documentation -- somewhere.  But it still seems to me that stating the
> minimum requirements in a place that people would tend to look for it is
> a... minimum requirement.
>
> If the developers really are determined not to mention specific versions
> of Windows (If it was me, I'd have probably mentioned that the most
> recent version required Vista somewhere on the download page), then
> maybe adding the comment about matching the release date of Python to
> the supported versions of Windows to the download pages would give
> people some sort of clue as to what's going on.
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This could be resolved in one line of HTML or reST. Windows XP is
still in use, and it was supported one minor version ago. Surely it
wouldn’t hurt to add a “Warning: Windows XP is ancient, and Python 3.5
does not support it — upgrade to a newer OS or use 3.4.3 instead”
notice to the download page?

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