Benjamin Peterson wrote: > 2009/9/30 Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au>: >> Barry Warsaw <ba...@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 "<whatever> is available" for the pre-release builds and then "RELEASED: <whatever>" for the actual release as Barry did this time around makes a great deal of sense to me. Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncogh...@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
