Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-19 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting important > fixes. > > I notice http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/NEWS.txt says the > release date was 17 Apr 2010. Presumably that should have said 2011. Thanks for pointing it out. I fixed it in the repository, so it

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-19 Thread Paul Rubin
"Martin v. Löwis" writes: > On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm > happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6. > > This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. Thanks Martin, I'm glad these older releases are still getting impo

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Reedy
On 4/18/2011 7:33 PM, Brendan Simon (eTRIX) wrote: If there is an official release of source (e.g. 2.5.5 and 2.5.6) why aren't binaries produced (other than to make it really hard for users and force them to upgrade to a later major revision -- 2.6, 2.7, etc) ?? Unofficial answer: A. Binaries

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-18 Thread Brendan Simon (eTRIX)
On 19/04/2011 9:05 AM, python-list-requ...@python.org wrote: Am 18.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Werner F. Bruhin: > On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >>http://www.python.org/2.5.6 If there is an official release of source (e.g. 2.5.5 and 2.5.6) why aren't binaries produced (

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-18 Thread Martin v. Loewis
Am 18.04.2011 09:59, schrieb Werner F. Bruhin: > On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: >> >> http://www.python.org/2.5.6 > Just FYI, getting a 404 error on the above. Thanks. There had been a number of glitches which have been corrected. If anything looks still incorrect, please le

Re: [ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-18 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
On 04/17/2011 11:57 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote: http://www.python.org/2.5.6 Just FYI, getting a 404 error on the above. I can see a 2.5.6c1 listes on "http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/highlights/"; which goes to "http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.6/"; Werner --

[ANN] Python 2.5.6 Release Candidate 1

2011-04-17 Thread Martin v. Löwis
On behalf of the Python development team and the Python community, I'm happy to announce the release candidate 1 of Python 2.5.6. This is a source-only release that only includes security fixes. The last full bug-fix release of Python 2.5 was Python 2.5.4. Users are encouraged to upgrade to the la