Open jmkristian opened 3 weeks ago
That would be an unfortunate limitation of Urwid, the TUI library on which Paracon is built. At this time, Urwid does not document the limitation either, so I was unaware of it, and I don't have Windows 8 to test against.
Given that extended support for Windows 8.1 ended almost a year and a half ago, I'm not overly concerned about this, but I can add a note somewhere. I've filed a similar request against Urwid to document it as part of their Windows limitations.
FWIW, as of January 10, 2023, Microsoft no longer provides security updates or technical support for Windows 8.1, so I wouldn't expect newer versions of Python to be as backwards compatible at some point. Checking the Python website, v3.8.x still supports Windows 8.x. The current Urwid says it requires Python 3.7+ so that doesn't seem to be an outright, no.
Although python is available on Windows 8, paracon doesn't work:
I guess it never will, since this type of TUI isn't supported by older versions of Windows' Command Prompt or PowerShell.
Please note this dependency up front, ideally in the README and/or the documentation front page. That will save people from going to the trouble of installing Python to no avail.