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

Steve Dower steve.dower at python.org
Mon Jul 9 13:18:24 EDT 2018


On 09Jul2018 0927, Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev wrote:
> On 09.07.2018 19:01, Steve Dower wrote:
>> Perhaps we should add non-button text below the button saying "Get the 
>> 64-bit version"?
>>
> 
> Maybe infer the bitness from User-Agent instead. This seems to be the 
> trend among official sites in general.

I'm not into creating that much work for someone else, since I'm 
certainly not going to be the one making this change.

Adding static text or a second button (as Paul suggested) is fine by me. 
But I don't want to start receiving bugs (or more likely, I don't want 
webmaster to start receiving emails) saying that the download is broken 
because someone who didn't think got the incompatible version.

Cheers,
Steve


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