"Joel Hedlund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> footnote: if you have a recent Python 2.5 build, > > Who would have that? Is it a good idea to use a pre-alpha python version?
The pre-public release version compiles as 'alpha0'. I have the impression the current alpha0 is being kept closer to releaseable more of the time than used to be the case. For instance, the developers recently set up a buildbot system to compile and run all unit tests on several systems with a variety of hardware and OSes up to several times a day. The results are available at http://www.python.org/dev/buildbot/ At of minutes ago, 5 systems are green (ok), 1 orange (warn) , and 1 red (fail). > ... Or should I start grabbing the Subversion trunk on a nightly basis? 'Should' if you want to experiment with new features or test existing code now rather than later. I would only grab it when the tests pass on the system closest to yours, and only repeat when there is a reason to. Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
