On Oct 04, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Michael Foord wrote:

>On 29/09/2011 08:55, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
>> Hey there,
>>
>> on this page: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
>>
>> it says 2.6.6 is the latest which is not true.
>
>It's the latest *binary release*, 2.6.7 was a source only release. But still,
>you're correct.
>
>The download pages are primarily looked after by the release managers and not
>the "web team" (if the rag-tag bunch of volunteers can even be called a
>team...).

I guess I missed this one when I release 2.6.7.  I agree that this page should
point to 2.6.7 even though it's a source-only release.

I'll update the site asap.

>> Furthermore, it was suggested by a friend to have a
>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6.x/  or
>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/latest  maybe, to point to
>> the latest always
>
>That would be great. It would need to be co-ordinated with the release
>managers, so that they can update the aliases when they do releases. If we
>had a dynamic site we could make it automatic of course.

Yeah, I've thought about that before too, but never really got around to
adding it (or updating PEP 101, etc).  I'm not sure I have much motivation to
do this for 2.6 though. ;)

-Barry
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