In a message of Sun, 01 Nov 2015 05:52:40 -0800, Steve Dower writes: >The installer and the contained contents are currently tied together, making >it fairly difficult to mix and match versions. > >When 3.5.1 happens is up to Larry, but I'm feeling like the initial rush of >bug reports has died down and we should be considering the remaining open ones >in the context of blocking that release. (The XP notification, as well as the >more confusing Vista and Win7 w/o service packs notifications, have been added >already. Python-list will probably keep asking though, just in case it can get >something for free...) > >Cheers, >Steve
Webmaster here. The initial rush of bug reports I see has not gone down. It's been in steady increase. This is not a data-blip due to last weekend's whole outage of mail.python.org. Getting the 'XP -- you are out of luck' message and the api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0-dll is Microsofts Universal CRT. You don't have one. You need to install it. Get it here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48234 message out of a failed install -- as soon as possible -- would have a serious positive impact around here. Most of the replies I make are of that sort. I have 2 templates to make it quick to do, but still, be nice if I could save my time for others. And I don't report the number of people I talk to with this problem to the bug tracker. This could possibly have mislead you. It is not like the: The 3.5 Windows installer fails with "The TARGETDIR variable must be provided when invoking this installer" bug https://bugs.python.org/issue25144 where I report when I hear about them if I think there is a good chance that having me report it will cause the person who submitted the bug to me to go track it -- because maybe asking him or her to give you more information about their system will help you resolve it. For the first 2 sorts, well, I won't spam you with the knowledge that windows xp users are complaining to webmaster a whole lot about 3.5 not working. But from my end -- sooner python.org serves up the improved installer, the better. Even if you made a release-candidate-right-now to do nothing but that. Laura _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
