From a72aaf12cab6acfdab350f7dae6c1831e974c0e6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mark Qvist <mark@unsigned.io>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:07:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Platform version check for Windows

---
 RNS/Reticulum.py            |  2 ++
 RNS/vendor/platformutils.py | 11 ++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/RNS/Reticulum.py b/RNS/Reticulum.py
index 018c533..95096db 100755
--- a/RNS/Reticulum.py
+++ b/RNS/Reticulum.py
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ class Reticulum:
         :param configdir: Full path to a Reticulum configuration directory.
         """
 
+        RNS.vendor.platformutils.platform_checks()
+
         if configdir != None:
             Reticulum.configdir = configdir
         
diff --git a/RNS/vendor/platformutils.py b/RNS/vendor/platformutils.py
index 6ce0aca..8743dc1 100644
--- a/RNS/vendor/platformutils.py
+++ b/RNS/vendor/platformutils.py
@@ -4,4 +4,13 @@ def get_platform():
         return 'android'
     else:
         import sys
-        return sys.platform
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+        return sys.platform
+
+def platform_checks():
+    if str(get_platform()).startswith("win32"):
+        if sys.version_info.major >= 3 and sys.version_info.minor >= 8:
+            pass
+        else:
+            RNS.log("On Windows, Reticulum requires Python 3.8 or higher.")
+            RNS.log("Please update Python to run Reticulum.")
+            RNS.panic()
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