Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-30 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 28, 2010, at 01:12 AM, Georg Brandl wrote: >I don't think I'll want to bother with porting doc fixes to the 2.6 >branch. Thanks for the feedback everyone. We will not be porting doc fixes to release26-maint. I would be open to a doc fix that was specifically addressing a security concern

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Regards, and a toast to 2.6.6! Prost! Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-27 Thread Éric Araujo
Thanks everyone for the feedback. I think my question has got good answers (usage patterns, versionchanged/versionadded, lack of releases, opinion of the doc editor), so it seems good for our users and for developers to let the 2.6 docs in peace. Regards, and a toast to 2.6.6!

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-27 Thread Georg Brandl
Am 25.08.2010 17:32, schrieb Éric Araujo: >> The question really is whether there is any chance that they will get >> released, in some form. There won't be further binary releases (at least >> not from python.org), so there definitely won't be a CHM release. > > I think that the most important re

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> I like how the django project present their documentation: there is > a little informational text at the head of each doc, saying that > "you're not browsing the most up-to-date documentation, you can > find the last one here"; maybe can we do a similar thing for the python > doc ? In principle,

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-25 Thread Alexis Métaireau
Le 08/25/2010 05:32 PM, Éric Araujo a écrit : > I think that the most important release is docs.python.org/2.6, > regardless of python.org/OS-specific downloadable doc packages. > > If people do like haypo and use the most recent docs instead of the > version-specific ones, there’s indeed no need

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-25 Thread Éric Araujo
> The question really is whether there is any chance that they will get > released, in some form. There won't be further binary releases (at least > not from python.org), so there definitely won't be a CHM release. I think that the most important release is docs.python.org/2.6, regardless of pytho

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> OTOH, I suspect there won't be *that* many documentation fixes for Python 2.6 > and that the overhead will be minimal. What did we do for Python 2.5? The question really is whether there is any chance that they will get released, in some form. There won't be further binary releases (at least no

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Victor Stinner
Le mercredi 25 août 2010 01:12:40, Barry Warsaw a écrit : > merwok asks on IRC whether documentation changes to release26-maint will be > allowed. I can sympathize with the 'allow' argument; Python 2.6 is still > either the default version or soon to be the new default in several > distributions,

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 24, 2010, at 03:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: >Python 2.6.6 marks the end of regular maintenance releases for the >Python 2.6 series. From now until October 2013, only security >related, source-only releases of Python 2.6 will be made available. >After that date, Python 2.6 will no longer be

Re: [Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Raymond Hettinger
On Aug 24, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Barry Warsaw wrote: > Hello fellow Pythoneers and Pythonistas, > > I'm very happy to announce the release of Python 2.6.6. Thanks Barry :-) Raymond ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.

[Python-Dev] Released: Python 2.6.6

2010-08-24 Thread Barry Warsaw
Hello fellow Pythoneers and Pythonistas, I'm very happy to announce the release of Python 2.6.6. A truly impressive number of bugs have been fixed since Python 2.6.5. Source code and Windows installers for Python 2.6.6 are now available here: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.6/