On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:54, "Martin v. Löwis" <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: > Am 27.01.2011 21:38, schrieb Brett Cannon: >> Because of all the writing I have been doing lately, I have been >> pulling up a lot of URLs pointing to various Python releases based >> around minor versions (e.g., Python 2.7, not specifically 2.7.1). What >> has been somewhat annoying is that there are no URLs which act as a >> redirect to the latest release of a minor version. For instance, it >> would be great if http://www.python.org/2.7 redirected to the Python >> 2.7.1 page. > > The tradition is that /X.Y actually points to download/releases/X.Y. > These redirects haven't been added for 2.7, but are present for all > earlier releases, and 3.1. So unless there are strong objections, > I'll add the missing redirects soon.
That would be great. Keeping bumping up against the missing 2.7 redirect. > >> Get the ball rolling, I say we make http://www.python.org/version/2.7 >> and http://www.python.org/version/2 redirect to the 2.7.1 release >> page, etc. Personally I would rather have http://www.python.org/2.7 >> redirect to 2.7.1, but since that already redirects to 2.7.0 I doubt >> people would be okay with the change. > > How about http://www.python.org/2.7.x redirecting to the latest 2.7.x > release? Likewise 2.x and 3.x. Works for me! Short and elegant. _______________________________________________ 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