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| author | Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> | 2020-07-28 15:55:38 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-07-28 15:55:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 95cc37f6b8e895a5042e2a10e5d9026429e06342 (patch) | |
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bpo-41412 and bpo-40948: Windows installer updates (GH-21656)
Prevent installation on Windows 8 and earlier.
Download UCRT on demand when required (non-updated Windows 8.1 only)
Add reference to py launcher to post-install message
(cherry picked from commit 37a06cbe5c17c2aa6ad938339fd42531a8a0bea0)
Co-authored-by: Steve Dower <steve.dower@python.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Misc')
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-11-55-43.bpo-41412.ME20KB.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-12-39-32.bpo-40948.ISUFO6.rst | 1 |
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-11-55-43.bpo-41412.ME20KB.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-11-55-43.bpo-41412.ME20KB.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..274264a --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-11-55-43.bpo-41412.ME20KB.rst @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +The installer will now fail to install on Windows 7 and Windows 8. Further, +the UCRT dependency is now always downloaded on demand. diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-12-39-32.bpo-40948.ISUFO6.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-12-39-32.bpo-40948.ISUFO6.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f8831d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Windows/2020-07-28-12-39-32.bpo-40948.ISUFO6.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Improve post-install message to direct people to the "py" command. |