Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-28 Thread skip
Brett> I don't get what you are worried about: http://www.python.org/2 Brett> would refer to 2.7.1 while http://www.python.org/3 would refer to Brett> 3.1.3. In my world, 2 == major, 7 == minor, 1 == micro. I interpreted your reference to "major" as implying .../2 would refer to .../

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Works for me! Short and elegant. Done! http://www.python.org/2.6.x http://www.python.org/2.x http://www.python.org/3.1.x http://www.python.org/3.x Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listin

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 5:40 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> Whatever we do, let's use this opportunity to  unify redirect rules >> for http://www.python.org/X.Y and http://docs.python.org/X.Y.  For a >> related discussion, see http://bugs.python.org/issue10446. > > TLDR; somebody should summarize

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Whatever we do, let's use this opportunity to unify redirect rules > for http://www.python.org/X.Y and http://docs.python.org/X.Y. For a > related discussion, see http://bugs.python.org/issue10446. TLDR; somebody should summarize it and specify what exactly needs to be changed. I'm only going

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Belopolsky
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:54 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: .. > How about http://www.python.org/2.7.x redirecting to the latest 2.7.x > release? Likewise 2.x and 3.x. Whatever we do, let's use this opportunity to unify redirect rules for http://www.python.org/X.Y and http://docs.python.org/X.Y.

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:54, "Martin v. Löwis" 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 specificall

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Brett Cannon
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:21, wrote: >    Brett> Bonus points if we extend this to major versions, too. =) > > I know you added a smiley, but just wanted to point out that since Python 2 > and 3 are really different languages, referring 2.4 users to 3.3 might be a > bad idea.  (I imagine it woul

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Martin v. Löwis
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

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread skip
Brett> Bonus points if we extend this to major versions, too. =) I know you added a smiley, but just wanted to point out that since Python 2 and 3 are really different languages, referring 2.4 users to 3.3 might be a bad idea. (I imagine it wouldn't be hard to generalize from micro to minor t

Re: [Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread Fred Drake
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:38 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: > Linking to the 2.7.0 release page seems off since it is > out of date, but linking to 2.7.1 also seems silly as that will become > out of date as the newest release of Python 2.7 at some point as well. I'd love to see something like this as w

[Python-Dev] getting stable URLs for major.minor versions

2011-01-27 Thread 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 relea