[Python-Dev] why is not 64-bit installer the default download link for Windows? (original) (raw)

Ivan Pozdeev vano at mail.mipt.ru
Tue Jul 10 22:14:34 EDT 2018

On 11.07.2018 1:41, Victor Stinner wrote:

2018-07-09 18:01 GMT+02:00 Steve Dower <steve.dower at python.org>:

The difficulty is that they definitely can use the 32-bit version, and those few who are on older machines or older installs of Windows may not understand why the link we provide didn't work for them. Let's say that only 10% of users still use 32-bit version. If they download a default 64-bit binary, I'm quite sure that running the binary will emit an error no? Such users should be used to such error, and be able to get the 64-bit version, no?

Attached the image of what happens. The message is:

"One or more issues caused the setup to fail. Please fix the issues and the retry setup. For more information see the log file .

0x80070661 - This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your product vendor."

Pretty descriptive in my book.

Victor

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