Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-30 Thread Blockheads Oi Oi
On Sep 29, 2:59 am, rantingrick wrote: > On Sep 27, 11:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano > +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > > The Python development team is relatively small and chronically busy: too > > much to do and not enough time to do it. > > If that is the case then why do they snub their no

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-29 Thread Brian Curtin
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 19:10, Nobody wrote: > On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:21:25 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: > > > No, it was a deliberate decision. After a release is in security-fix > > mode only, we don't build Windows or Mac OS X installers for them. > > But you continue to offer the installers for t

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-28 Thread rantingrick
On Sep 27, 11:25 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > The Python development team is relatively small and chronically busy: too > much to do and not enough time to do it. If that is the case then why do they snub their noses at anyone who wishes to help? What kind of people would chase off good help jus

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-28 Thread Gabriel Genellina
En Wed, 28 Sep 2011 21:10:38 -0300, Nobody escribió: On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:21:25 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: No, it was a deliberate decision. After a release is in security-fix mode only, we don't build Windows or Mac OS X installers for them. But you continue to offer the installers for the

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-28 Thread Nobody
On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:21:25 -0700, Ned Deily wrote: > No, it was a deliberate decision. After a release is in security-fix > mode only, we don't build Windows or Mac OS X installers for them. But you continue to offer the installers for the unfixed version. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-28 Thread Ned Deily
In article <4e82a1a1$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:43 -0700, Wanderer wrote: > > I need to stay in sink with the rest of the company which is still using > > 2.6 flavors. There was some investigation into going to Python 3 but not

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:43 -0700, Wanderer wrote: > I need to stay in sink with the rest of the company which is still using > 2.6 flavors. There was some investigation into going to Python 3 but not > enough of the libraries we use were available. I'll install 2.6.6. I > don't think the securit

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Terry Reedy
On 9/27/2011 5:32 PM, Wanderer wrote: I need to stay in sink with the rest of the company which is still using 2.6 flavors. There was some investigation into going to Python 3 but not enough of the libraries we use were available. I'll install 2.6.6. I don't think the security stuff really effec

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 16:32, Wanderer wrote: > I think it is strange to release a security update but not really expect > people > to use it. We expect that people who need 2.6 but won't move to 2.7, and at the same time are vulnerable to the security issue(s), would be able to compile Python

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Wanderer
On Sep 27, 5:19 pm, becky_lewis wrote: > On Sep 27, 9:54 pm, Wanderer wrote: > > > How do I install Python 2.6.7 on Windows? The Python 2.6.6 page says > > > "Python 2.6.6 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source > > release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead." > > > But

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread becky_lewis
On Sep 27, 9:54 pm, Wanderer wrote: > How do I install Python 2.6.7 on Windows? The Python 2.6.6 page says > > "Python 2.6.6 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source > release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead." > > But there is no windows installer on the 2.6.7 page. Do

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Brian Curtin
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 15:54, Wanderer wrote: > How do I install Python 2.6.7 on Windows? The Python 2.6.6 page says > > "Python 2.6.6 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source > release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead." > > But there is no windows installer on the 2.6

Re: Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Arnaud Delobelle
On 27 September 2011 21:54, Wanderer wrote: > How do I install Python 2.6.7 on Windows? The Python 2.6.6 page says > > "Python 2.6.6 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source > release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead." > > But there is no windows installer on the 2.6.7

Installing Python 2.6.7 on Windows

2011-09-27 Thread Wanderer
How do I install Python 2.6.7 on Windows? The Python 2.6.6 page says "Python 2.6.6 has been replaced by a newer security-fix only source release of Python. Please download Python 2.6.7 instead." But there is no windows installer on the 2.6.7 page. Do I install 2.6.6 first and then update to 2.6.7