On 4/15/2014 7:33 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes:
3.4.0 was released a month ago with Windows and Mac installers and
source for everything else. I know Ubuntu was testing the release
candidate so I presume it is or will very soon have 3.4 officially
available. Since there was a six month series of alpha, beta, and
candidate releases, with an approximate final release data, any
distribution that wanted to be up to date also could be.
Those assertions assume that:
* operating systems have stable releases every few months; and
* they have a zero-length process to get a stable release of Python into
the stable OS release; and
* the user is always running the latest stable OS version immediately
after its release.
No, I was not talking about replacing the system python. Only about
having a .rpm or .deb or whatever available to make an alternate
install. My comments are a response to someone saying he could not use
Python3 because his system only had ancient 3.2 available and he needed
to use a module that requires 3.3. If he was telling the truth, this
strikes me as ridiculous.
When, in reality, the OS team will need quite a long time to ensure the
stable Python release works smoothly with all of the rest of the OS;
For a standalone non-system install, I cannot imagine what you are
talking about. CPython is primarily developed on Linux. It is continuous
tested on multiple buildbots that include several *nix and in particular
linux distributions (https://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/). I believe it
more stable on linux than anything else, certainly more than on Windows.
CPython x.y.0 is released after a month of candidate testing. When it is
released, it definitely works on multiple linux distributions, or it
would not be released.
I believe distutils has options to create some package manager bundles
(.rpm, .deb?, ???) and that we once hosted such on the site on day 1,
along with a windows binary. I believe we no longer do because linux
distributions proliferated and said that they would rather host python
bundles in their own package manager systems.
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