On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 08:29:59AM -0500, Aahz wrote: > On Sun, Dec 07, 2003, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > > > > I think it would be worthwhile to occasionally (every 3 months or so) > > package a Py2.4 pre-alpha release. My feel is that a number of people > > without compilers (Windows users especially) would enjoy working with > > the latest python if it were an easy thing to do (has an installer, > > etc). > > > > Besides increasing community involvement, this could open up a whole new > > stream of user feedback so we can discover issues sooner rather than > > later. Since non-developers stress the system in different ways, they > > are more likely to surface various documentation, usability, and > > integration bugs. > > Let's see if I can channel Tim correctly: "The number of people who have > historically downloaded beta and candidate releases indicates that it's > unlikely that people will download pre-alpha releases." JFYI, FreeBSD distributes its own unofficial snapshot of Python 2.4. http://www.freshports.org/lang/python-devel/ Looking at download statistics, it seems that about 60~80 users install FreeBSD's python-devel snapshot for every updates. (the count can be much more because downloads from many mirror sites isn't counted.) Hye-Shik
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