In article <4e82a1a1$0$29965$c3e8da3$54964...@news.astraweb.com>, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:32:43 -0700, Wanderer wrote: > > I need to stay in sink with the rest of the company which is still using > > 2.6 flavors. There was some investigation into going to Python 3 but not > > enough of the libraries we use were available. I'll install 2.6.6. I > > don't think the security stuff really effects me. I think it is strange > > to release a security update but not really expect people to use it. > > > More likely the person who builds the Windows installers just hasn't made > a new release yet. > > The Python development team is relatively small and chronically busy: too > much to do and not enough time to do it. As I understand it, most of them > use Linux, so I'm afraid that Windows sometimes takes a back seat. (At > least it's not Mac OS, which is stuck riding in the boot of the car, or > the other semi-supported OSes, which are on a skateboard desperately > hanging onto the bumper trying not to be left behind.)
No, it was a deliberate decision. After a release is in security-fix mode only, we don't build Windows or Mac OS X installers for them. The emphasis is on the actively maintained release branches, currently 3.2.x and 2.7.x. If third-party distributors want to support their users with binary installers, that is of course their option. "Python 2.6.7 is a security-fix only source release for Python 2.6.6, fixing several reported security issues. Python 2.6.7 was released on June 3, 2011. Python 2.6 is now in security-fix-only mode; no new features are being added, and no new bug fix releases are planned. We intend to provide source-only security fixes for the Python 2.6 series until October 2013 (five years after the 2.6 final release). For ongoing maintenance releases, please see the Python 2.7 series." http://www.python.org/getit/releases/2.6.7/ (And I think you may be just slightly mischaracterizing the status of both Mac OS X and Windows support.) -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
