Poll on PyPI rating system

2009-11-13 Thread Martin v. Löwis
PyPI (pypi.python.org) recently got a rating system which includes the option of posting comments about a package release also. Several people have expressed a strong dislike of that system and want to see it changed or removed. In order to find out what the community thinks, we are now performing

ANN: ActivePython 2.6.4.8 is now available

2009-11-13 Thread Sridhar Ratnakumar
I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.6.4.8 is now available for download from: http://www.activestate.com/activepython/ This is a patch release that updates ActivePython to core Python 2.6.4. We recommend that you try 2.6 version first. See the release notes for full details: http:

[ANN] ftputil 2.4.2 released

2009-11-13 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
ftputil 2.4.2 is now available from http://ftputil.sschwarzer.net/download . Changes since version 2.4.1 --- - Some FTP servers seem to have problems using *any* directory argument which contains slashes. The new default for FTP commands now is to change into the direc