<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 26 Jan 2017 at 08:39 Paul Moore <<a href="mailto:p.f.moore@gmail.com">p.f.moore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 26 January 2017 at 16:11, Victor Stinner <<a href="mailto:victor.stinner@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">victor.stinner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
> Is it time to "hide" Python 2.7 from the default choice and only show<br class="gmail_msg">
> Python 3.6 *by default*?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Actually, looking back at the "Download" dropdown for Windows, I see<br class="gmail_msg">
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Python 3.6.0 Python 2.7.13<br class="gmail_msg">
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That's not really that bad (I recalled it being worse) - Python 3 is<br class="gmail_msg">
on the left, which I'd interpret as "first", but otherwise the choices<br class="gmail_msg">
are pretty equal.<br class="gmail_msg">
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The problem is that because it's 32-bit, I never really look at these<br class="gmail_msg">
options, I always go straight to "Other downloads", which is in a<br class="gmail_msg">
*really* weird order - 3.5.3, then 3.5.3rc1, then 3.6.0, then 2.7.13,<br class="gmail_msg">
... "Full list of downloads" isn't much better - 3.4.6, 3.5.3, 3.6.0,<br class="gmail_msg">
2.7.13, 3.4.5, ...<br class="gmail_msg">
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+1 on tidying up, and consistently showing an order 3.6.0, 2.7.13,<br class="gmail_msg">
"other older versions". No matter where people end up, they should<br class="gmail_msg">
always see 3.6 as the first option, with 2.7 clearly available as "the<br class="gmail_msg">
other one".<br class="gmail_msg">
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+0 on de-emphasising 2.7 still further. I'm in favour, and I think<br class="gmail_msg">
that people who need 2.7 in practice probably need it for<br class="gmail_msg">
compatibility with other parts of their system and so should likely be<br class="gmail_msg">
getting it from their vendor/distro rather than <a href="http://python.org" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">python.org</a>.<br class="gmail_msg">
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+1 on making the main download for Windows 64-bit.<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1 to what Paul proposes. </div></div></div>