On 18.02.2021 01:45, Brett Cannon wrote: > If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put them > up > under the Python org on GitHub for posterity.
There is already a page with Andrew's build on python.org: https://www.python.org/download/releases/early/ but it's not linked from e.g. https://www.python.org/download/releases/ His page lists the details around making it work again: http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/03/27/python_0_9_1p1.html > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:10 AM Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com > <mailto:skip.montan...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > This is getting a bit more off-topic for python-dev than I'd like. I > will make a couple comments though, then hopefully be done with this > thread. > > > The original ones are here: > > http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/alt.sources/volume91/Feb/ > > Look at http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/alt.sources/index.gz > > for the associating subjects with file names. As far as I can tell, > > they extract flawlessly using unshar. > > Thanks. Will check them out. > > > When I see diffs like this (your git vs. the unshar result) I tend to > > trust unshar more: > > ... > > Well, sure. I was trying to reverse engineer the original shar files > from Google's HTML. I was frankly fairly surprised that I got as close > to perfection as I did. I realized that Google had mangled Guido's old > CWI email, but didn't worry about it. I also saw the TeX macro > mangling, but as I wasn't planning to rebuild the documentation, I > didn't worry too much about that. I expected to need a bunch of manual > patchwork to get back to something that would even compile. > > It's nice to know that in this case, "the Internet never forgets." > > Skip > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > <mailto:python-dev@python.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > <mailto:python-dev-le...@python.org> > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/J6IOWRUUZ64EHFLGSNBMSNO6RIJEZO22/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ > Message archived at > https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/GHZYRQJOMG63MPZ6XJOBQXPCMV46GXOO/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ > -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Experts (#1, Feb 18 2021) >>> Python Projects, Coaching and Support ... https://www.egenix.com/ >>> Python Product Development ... https://consulting.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: We implement business ideas - efficiently in both time and costs ::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 https://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ https://www.malemburg.com/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/CSX6WQFKLZGDQD6E5U7XKYE5KTAGVJKG/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
