David Beazley has also collected various historic releases here: https://github.com/dabeaz/hoppy/tree/master/Ancient -- he's got 0.9.1, 0.9.6, 0.9.7beta1, 0.9.8, 0.9.9, and 1.0.3. For me personally, the fondest memories are of 1.5.2, which Paul Everitt declared, while we were well into 2.x territory, was still the best Python ever. (I didn't agree, but 1.5.2 did serve us very well for a long time.) On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 5:19 PM, Lukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl> wrote:
On 27 Jan, 2018, at 5:10 PM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists@gmail.com> wrote:
We probably should (if possible) create an archive (with dates) of very old (or all, actually) versions of CPython, analogous to what The Unix Heritage Society does for V5, V7, etc., but for CPython...
Or is there one already? I found a bunch of 1.x's, but no 0.x's. What I found was at http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/
If I remember correctly, Dave Beazley, who went on this particular adventure a few months back, concluded that other releases are lost forever due to FTPs and their mirrors going offline over time. He did find a tarball of 0.9.1 reconstructed by Andrew Dalke from usenet posts.
Read on, this is pretty fascinating: https://twitter.com/dabeaz/status/ 934590421984075776
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