On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 03:43 am, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> Remember, people can click a direct download link >> *on the python.org front page* and be immediately downloading Python 2 >> or 3 for the OS that the browser announces. Where would you put the >> big fat noisy warning? > > Maybe the website shouldn't do that then. > > Seriously, if the browser announces Windows XP, it's probably not a good > idea to download a version which is known not to work with XP...
Maybe Laura would know how plausible this is, but... I expect most people who go to the front page are looking for the "one most obvious download". (Okay, we have two - 2.7 and 3.x - but leaving that aside.) There's detection of what your OS is, which then selects an appropriate download file; it'd be really cool if a browser UA that represents XP would cause the link to point to 3.4 instead of 3.5. Or would that cause more confusion than it solves? ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
