[pydotorg-www] Do we need the admonition about Itanium processors?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 30.06.2017 10:58, Alex Walters wrote:
> On the download page on python.org, all the windows 64 bit downloads have a
> note stating that the download is not for Itanium processors.
> https://i.imgur.com/A05oQmp.png (Image for illustration)
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itanium#Market_share
> 
> I am not sure that it's entirely required to make the admonition, as there
> are just not that many Itanium machines in the wild (compared to arm or a
> flavor of x86).  I'm not going to say that stating that they are not for
> Itanium is bad, but I don't think it's something we need to do, especially
> since the download link even says "X86-64".
> 
> Perhaps in the future, don't include the note?  Or do, this is just a
> thought I had while looking at the download page.

Could you open a report on the python.org tracker for this ?

https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues

Thanks,
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Marc-Andre Lemburg
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