Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Paul Rubin]

Martin v. Löwis mar...@v.loewis.de writes:
 On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm
 happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6.

 This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. 

Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important
fixes. 

I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the
release date was 17 Apr 2010.  Presumably that should have said 2011.
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Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Martin v. Loewis]

 Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important
 fixes. 
 
 I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the
 release date was 17 Apr 2010.  Presumably that should have said 2011.

Thanks for pointing it out. I fixed it in the repository, so it should
be fine in the final release.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Werner F. Bruhin]

On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:


 http://www.python.org/2.5.6

Just FYI, getting a 404 error on the above.

I can see a 2.5.6c1 listes on 
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/highlights/;  which goes to 
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/;


Werner

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Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Martin v. Loewis]

Am 18.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Werner F. Bruhin:
 On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

  http://www.python.org/2.5.6
 Just FYI, getting a 404 error on the above.

Thanks. There had been a number of glitches which have been
corrected. If anything looks still incorrect, please let me know.

Regards,
Martin
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Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Brendan Simon (eTRIX)]

On 19/04/2011 9:05 AM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote:


Am 18.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Werner F. Bruhin:

  On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

http://www.python.org/2.5.6
If there is an official release of source (e.g. 2.5.5 and 2.5.6) why 
aren't binaries produced (other than to make it really hard for users 
and force them to upgrade to a later major revision -- 2.6, 2.7, etc) ??


It's ok for Linux distros as they tend to build from sources, and test, 
and produce their own binary packages.  But for OS X and MSW users it's 
not quite like that.  I'd like to upgrade to 2.5.6 (for one particular 
mature application), but unfortunately I'm stuck with 2.5.4 as I don't 
really want to have to build (and hopefully get it right) on my OS X box.


Cheers, Brendan.

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Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

[Terry Reedy]

On 4/18/2011 7:33 PM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote:


If there is an official release of source (e.g. 2.5.5 and 2.5.6) why
aren't binaries produced (other than to make it really hard for users
and force them to upgrade to a later major revision -- 2.6, 2.7, etc) ??


Unofficial answer:
A. Binaries are a lot of work.
B. Security releases are primarily for servers.
C. Security releases after bugfix is over is better than nothing (the 
old policy before 2.5).

D. You are welcome to pay someone to produce one for you.

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