[Python-Dev] What's New in 2.6 link wasn't what I expected (original) (raw)

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Fri Sep 19 08:14:33 CEST 2008


>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt >> >> Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.

Martin> How so? The first major heading in that file reads Seems more like the Misc/NEWS file to me.

Correct.

I was expecting Andrew's What's New document

Why that? The link deliberately says "What's new in Python 2.6rc2", not "What's new in Python 2.6".

If you Google for "site:python.org whatsnew" seven of the first eight hits are for various versions of Andrew's 2.x What's New doc. That's what people expect to find. We shouldn't be changing that now.

I admit that the traditional description for that link is "release notes" or "detailed release notes".

Regards, Martin



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