Windows 64 downloads have an admonishment about Itanium processors

[tritium21]

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.

But no one uses Itanium processors (for values of no one greater than zero, but not much greater). Is this really required? The download link explicitly says X86-64 already, and Itanium users would know to look for that.

And as far as I can tell, Itanium is on it's way out very soon.

[berkerpeksag]

Thank you for the report. That field usually filled by release managers and/or platform experts who build installers. Let's ping @ned-deily and @zooba and see what they think about this. I can drop the Itanium part once we get feedback from them.

[tjguk]

FWIW I'm fairly sure this note was in place waaaaay back, certainly before Steve was involved; not sure about Ned. Anyway, let's see what they say, but I'm fairly sure it can safely be dropped for the reasons given by the OP. We've got quite a few bits & pieces like this around the place which move from "useful warning" to "fairly common knowledge" to "faintly amusing" to "what on earth is that about?" The difficulty is in knowing at what stage to have a clear-out!

[berkerpeksag]

We also need to remove it from https://github.com/python/release-tools/blob/master/add-to-pydotorg.py#L57-L65 (leaving this here so I won't forget)

[ned-deily]

I'm fine with changing the wording as long as @zooba is.

[tritium21]

For the record, I don't think it causes harm, I just think to the average user it looks.... well... "what on earth is that about?"

[berkerpeksag]

I've now stripped ", not Itanium processors" from 157 release files via this script.

[berkerpeksag]

I've also updated add-to-pydotorg.py script in python/release-tools@73ca499.

[zonecodez]

"not itanium processors" still appears when browsing with firefox

[berkerpeksag]

The latest release files were probably uploaded by an old copy of add-to-pydotorg.py. There is no note about Itanium processors at https://github.com/python/release-tools/blob/31575abc23e3e2ca1ceb33aba7ae20d6448b710b/add-to-pydotorg.py#L56-L65 anymore.