On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 5:00 AM, A.M. Kuchling <amk@amk.ca> wrote:

There are two pages that I'd like to get rid of, but am dithering about:

* http://www.python.org/doc/newstyle/ claims:

     Unfortunately, new-style classes have not yet been integrated into      Python's standard documention. Fear not, however; many people have      worked to provide useful information on creating and using new-style      classes.

 Is this still true?  Are the resources linked from that page still useful?

CCed to docs.

* A lot of the ports on http://www.python.org/download/other/ are very  old.  (2.1, 2.4, even 1.5.2, etc.).  I think most people will just  search for "Python <OS name>" and not come to python.org to poke  around.  Can we just drop the page completely?

Very useful page. Converting to wiki is a good idea.

Now that I look at it, http://www.python.org/download/linux/ doesn't really have a lot of content; maybe it can be deleted, too.

It should be redirected to Wiki and Wiki expanded with information how to get the Python installed for their platform (Ubuntu/Debian), how to install newer Python (very actual for Debian). Describe Python environment on these platforms or provide relevant links. -- anatoly t.