@Branko: my point is that python has many stable releases. I have some
ancient code that's still on python 2.3 and absolutely, positively
can't be upgraded to the latest stable 2.5.X or later. The point being
that if I were ever going to have to migrate that code to a new
machine, I would have to install python 2.3.x.

On Dec 25, 12:57 pm, Branko Vukelić <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 4:08 PM, weheh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm not keen on the 2 button approach -- can you imagine a 2 button
> > release for python? Nevertheless, it does potentially simplify the
>
> Yes, I can certainly imagine a 2 button Python release[1]:
>
> ------------------------------
>
> For the MD5 checksums and OpenPGP signatures, look at the detailed
> Python 2.7.1 page:
>
>     * Python 2.7.1 Windows installer (Windows binary -- does not include 
> source)
>     * Python 2.7.1 Windows X86-64 installer (Windows AMD64 / Intel 64
> / X86-64 binary [1] -- does not include source)
>
>     * Python 2.7.1 compressed source tarball (for Linux, Unix or OS X)
>     * Python 2.7.1 bzipped source tarball (for Linux, Unix or OS X,
> more compressed)
>
> Also look at the detailed Python 3.1.3 page:
>
>     * Python 3.1.3 Windows x86 MSI Installer (Windows binary -- does
> not include source)
>     * Python 3.1.3 Windows X86-64 MSI Installer (Windows AMD64 / Intel
> 64 / X86-64 binary [1] -- does not include source)
>
>     * Python 3.1.3 compressed source tarball (for Linux, Unix or OS X)
>     * Python 3.1.3 bzipped source tarball (for Linux, Unix or OS X,
> more compressed)
>
> ------------------------------
>
> [1]http://python.org/download/
>
> --
> Branko Vukelic
>
> [email protected]http://www.brankovukelic.com/

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