[Python-Dev] Python 2.6.3rc1 available (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sun Oct 4 10:25:50 CEST 2009

Benjamin Peterson wrote:

2009/9/30 Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>:

Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> writes:

The first (and hopefully last) release candidate for Python 2.6.3 is now available […] Thank you for this announcement, and the efforts that go into making this work available. Especially thank you for avoiding the oxymoronic “Released: 2.6.3 release candidate” or similar. I hope this signifies a trend toward using the more accurate term “available” for announcing availability of anything that's not an actual release. Alphas, betas, and release candidates are all releases, too.

Not really - they're just key builds that are made available in the lead up to the actual release.

Using " is available" for the pre-release builds and then "RELEASED: " for the actual release as Barry did this time around makes a great deal of sense to me.

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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