[Python-Dev] Py2.4 pre-alpha snapshot (original) (raw)

Hye-Shik Chang perky at i18n.org
Sun Dec 7 09:36:20 EST 2003

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:29:59AM -0500, Aahz wrote:

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > I think it would be worthwhile to occasionally (every 3 months or so) > package a Py2.4 pre-alpha release. My feel is that a number of people > without compilers (Windows users especially) would enjoy working with > the latest python if it were an easy thing to do (has an installer, > etc). > > Besides increasing community involvement, this could open up a whole new > stream of user feedback so we can discover issues sooner rather than > later. Since non-developers stress the system in different ways, they > are more likely to surface various documentation, usability, and > integration bugs.

Let's see if I can channel Tim correctly: "The number of people who have historically downloaded beta and candidate releases indicates that it's unlikely that people will download pre-alpha releases."

JFYI, FreeBSD distributes its own unofficial snapshot of Python 2.4. http://www.freshports.org/lang/python-devel/

Looking at download statistics, it seems that about 60~80 users install FreeBSD's python-devel snapshot for every updates. (the count can be much more because downloads from many mirror sites isn't counted.)

Hye-Shik

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