[Python-Dev] Download URL typo (original) (raw)

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Wed Sep 20 03:14:12 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Martin v. Löwis schrieb:

Michael Walter schrieb:

in case noone didn't notice yet: the "Windows MSI Installer" link at http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/ points to Python 2.4! Why is this a problem? The link is actually correct: The MSI documentation is the same. I reconsidered. Even though the documentation was nearly correct (except that one limitation went away long ago), it's probably better to have the documentation state "2.5" throughout. So I copied it, changed the version numbers, and changed the links to refer to the copy. As I write the situation is an ugly mess, since the most visible link is just plain wrong. The page

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/

has a block at the top right whose last link is "Windows MSI installer". That links to

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/msi/

which also has a block at the top right whose last link is "Windows MSI installer". Unfortunately that takes you to

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/msi/msi

by which time you have completely lost contact with any style sheet, and despite the potential infinite regress have still not located the actual installer. The correct link is in-line:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/python-2.5.msi

I think the next time we redesign the web production system we should take the release managers' needs into consideration. They should have a simple form to fill in, with defaults already provided. As indeed should many other people ...

regards Steve

Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://holdenweb.blogspot.com Recent Ramblings http://del.icio.us/steve.holden

More information about the Python-Dev mailing list