Aahz <aahz at pythoncraft.com> writes: > 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." > > OTOH, David Goodger has been reasonably successful with docutils having > snapshots. It's certainly a worthwhile question about whether people > would be more likely to download beta and candidate releases if snapshots > were regularly available. In my case, I can no longer compile Python on Windows (VC5 worked up to 2.3). So to test IDLE against 2.4 on that platform, I need a Windows installer. As I recollect, there was discussion about moving to VC7 which has a free compiler available. Is that going to happen on 2.4? -- KBK
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