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

Martin v. Löwis martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Dec 7 12:47:37 EST 2003

"Raymond Hettinger" <raymond.hettinger at verizon.net> writes:

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).

Anybody could do that, without any official blessing. For example, I'm distributing Itanium binaries at my own leisure, and I plan to provide Itanium binaries for 2.4-in-progress, once I complete fixing the pending issues.

So if you want to provide snapshots, just go ahead. If you need hyperlinks from Python.org, or disk space on python.org: that can be provided.

OTOH, I would consider it a wastage of resources if the regular packagers would put any effort into snapshots (unless they really want to do this on their own).

Regards, Martin

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