Dec. 3, 2002
1:34 p.m.
Do we really need both Doc/whatsnew/* and Misc/NEWS? It seems that people frequently make nearly the same edits to both files, or add to Misc/NEWS only and someone later (usually Andrew) goes back and twiddles the necessary bits in Doc/whatsnew.
They serve different purposes. Misc/NEWS is supposed to be exhaustive, but terse. whatsnew23.tex is supposed to give the highlights, with examples, etc. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)