RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

[Barry Warsaw]

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
happy to announce the second alpha release of Python 2.6, and the
fourth alpha release of Python 3.0.

Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not
suitable for production environments. We continue to strive for a
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and
the feature sets have not been finalized. These alphas are being
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact
you. If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug
report at

http://bugs.python.org

For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python
2.6 web
site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/

and the Python 3.0 web site:

http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/

We are planning one more alpha release of each version, followed by
two beta releases, with the final releases planned for August 2008.
See PEP 361 for release details:

http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/

Enjoy,
- -Barry

Barry Warsaw
barry@python.or g
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)

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[Giampaolo Rodola']

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

On 4 Apr, 03:47, Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.o rgwrote:

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On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm  
happy to announce the second alpha release of Python 2.6, and the  
fourth alpha release of Python 3.0.
>
Please note that these are alpha releases, and as such are not  
suitable for production environments.  We continue to strive for a  
high degree of quality, but there are still some known problems and  
the feature sets have not been finalized.  These alphas are being  
released to solicit feedback and hopefully discover bugs, as well as  
allowing you to determine how changes in 2.6 and 3.0 might impact  
you.  If you find things broken or incorrect, please submit a bug  
report at
>
   http://bugs.python.org
>
For more information and downloadable distributions, see the Python  
2.6 web
site:
>
   http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>
and the Python 3.0 web site:
>
   http://www.python.org/download/releases/3.0/
>
We are planning one more alpha release of each version, followed by  
two beta releases, with the final releases planned for August 2008.  
See PEP 361 for release details:
>
     http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
>
Enjoy,
- -Barry
>
Barry Warsaw
ba...@python.or g
Python 2.6/3.0 Release Manager
(on behalf of the entire python-dev team)
>
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The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.


--- Giampaolo

http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

And likely will continue to do so for some time.

Regards,
Martin

[Kay Schluehr]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

On 4 Apr., 21:45, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>
And likely will continue to do so for some time.
>
Regards,
Martin

Fine. Is there also a reason?

[Terry Reedy]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4


"Kay Schluehr" <kay.schluehr@g mx.netwrote in message
news:f4ac789e-c98f-4cf2-9236-f1ac609c44de@b1 g2000hsg.google groups.com...
On 4 Apr., 21:45, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>
And likely will continue to do so for some time.

Fine. Is there also a reason?
=============== ===========

On PyDev, Martin gave just (but only) a bit more detail, to the effect that
he has run into problems with the new Microsoft compiler being used for
2.6/3.0 that apparently did not crop up with the previous alpha releases a
month ago. I think we should be patient and not bug him for more.

Terry

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

Kay Schluehr wrote:

On 4 Apr., 21:45, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

>>The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>And likely will continue to do so for some time.
>>
>Regards,
>Martin

>
Fine. Is there also a reason?

Sure! I don't have the time to spell it out, though, please
look at the python-dev archives. If you want to help, please
contact me in private.

Regards,
Martin

[John Machin]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

On Apr 5, 5:45 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>
And likely will continue to do so for some time.
>
>

Someone's got strange definitions of "missing"!

For each there's a link on the the ptyhon.org website, and a caveat
about non-Administrator installation ...

If it's missing, then what do I expect to find in the 11.7Mb 2.6a2 msi
that is downloading as I type?

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22Martin_v=2E_L=F6wis=22?=]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

John Machin wrote:

On Apr 5, 5:45 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

>>The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>And likely will continue to do so for some time.
>>
>>

>
Someone's got strange definitions of "missing"!

Rather a flexible definition of "some time"; this turned out to be
roughly 40 hours.

Regards,
Martin

[Giampaolo Rodola']

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

On 6 Apr, 00:55, John Machin <sjmac...@lexic on.netwrote:

On Apr 5, 5:45 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:
>

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>

And likely will continue to do so for some time.

>
Someone's got strange definitions of "missing"!
>
For each there's a link on the the ptyhon.org website, and a caveat
about non-Administrator installation ...
>
If it's missing, then what do I expect to find in the 11.7Mb 2.6a2 msi
that is downloading as I type?

At the time I replied they were both missing (in fact that's why I
replied :-)).


--- Giampaolo

http://code.google.com/p/pyftpdlib

[John Machin]

Re: RELEASED Python 2.6a2 and 3.0a4

On Apr 7, 12:50 am, "Giampaolo Rodola'" <gne...@gmail.c omwrote:

On 6 Apr, 00:55, John Machin <sjmac...@lexic on.netwrote:
>

On Apr 5, 5:45 am, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewi s.dewrote:

>

The Windows x86 MSI installer is missing for both 2.6 and 3.0.

>

And likely will continue to do so for some time.

>

Someone's got strange definitions of "missing"!

>

For each there's a link on the the ptyhon.org website, and a caveat
about non-Administrator installation ...

>

If it's missing, then what do I expect to find in the 11.7Mb 2.6a2 msi
that is downloading as I type?

>
At the time I replied they were both missing (in fact that's why I
replied :-)).
>

And at the time I replied, at least one was available but the most
recent information in this newsgroup was that they were unavailable
and would be so for some fuzzily-denominated duration which seemed
seriously long ... perhaps my two different and not totally reliable
news-reading facilities skipped a posting :-)