What's New in 2.6 link wasn't what I expected
From this page:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/ I clicked the link labelled "What's new in Python 2.6rc2". This didn't take me to the What's New page. Instead it took me to: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else. Poking around I see that the 2.5 What's New document is at: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html but http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/whatsnew26.html doesn't exist. Am I missing something? Skip
I clicked the link labelled "What's new in Python 2.6rc2". This didn't take me to the What's New page. Instead it took me to:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt
Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.
How so? The first major heading in that file reads "What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?"
Am I missing something?
Perhaps reading the file that was linked might have helped. Regards, Martin
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:49:28AM +0200, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
I clicked the link labelled "What's new in Python 2.6rc2". This didn't take me to the What's New page. Instead it took me to:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt
Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.
How so? The first major heading in that file reads
"What's New in Python 2.6 release candidate 2?"
Am I missing something?
Perhaps reading the file that was linked might have helped.
I ran into this, too (and I did read the file that was linked to). I had expected to find the "What's New" page describing what was new in Python 2.6, and I would have expected a "Release Notes" link to point to the NEWS.txt page. That's how things were in the past, anyway: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/#what-s-new It's a minor thing, but I did have to go hunt down the What's New file. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868
>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt >> >> Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else. Martin> How so? The first major heading in that file reads Seems more like the Misc/NEWS file to me. I was expecting Andrew's What's New document, which I eventually found at http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html If you Google for "site:python.org whatsnew" seven of the first eight hits are for various versions of Andrew's 2.x What's New doc. That's what people expect to find. We shouldn't be changing that now. Skip
skip@pobox.com wrote:
>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt >> >> Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.
Martin> How so? The first major heading in that file reads
Seems more like the Misc/NEWS file to me. I was expecting Andrew's What's New document, which I eventually found at
http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html
If you Google for "site:python.org whatsnew" seven of the first eight hits are for various versions of Andrew's 2.x What's New doc. That's what people expect to find. We shouldn't be changing that now.
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>> http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt >> >> Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.
Martin> How so? The first major heading in that file reads
Seems more like the Misc/NEWS file to me.
Correct.
I was expecting Andrew's What's New document
Why that? The link deliberately says "What's new in Python 2.6rc2", not "What's new in Python 2.6".
If you Google for "site:python.org whatsnew" seven of the first eight hits are for various versions of Andrew's 2.x What's New doc. That's what people expect to find. We shouldn't be changing that now.
I admit that the traditional description for that link is "release notes" or "detailed release notes". Regards, Martin
skip@pobox.com wrote:
From this page:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/
I clicked the link labelled "What's new in Python 2.6rc2". This didn't take me to the What's New page. Instead it took me to:
http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.6/NEWS.txt
Seems a bit mislabelled if nothing else.
I agree - as Andrew suggested, it would probably be better if the What's New? list for 2.6 was a bit more like the 2.5 list: http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5/
Poking around I see that the 2.5 What's New document is at:
That actually rewrites the URL to the URL for the current docs (removing the 'dev' part): http://docs.python.org/whatsnew/whatsnew25.html
but
The name was changed in the move to Sphinx for the docs - it's at: http://docs.python.org/dev/whatsnew/2.6.html (Unlike the old What's New directory, or the current library directory and so forth, that directory doesn't have an index entry defined, so simply leaving out the file name detail doesn't currently do the right thing - you get the directory listing instead of the what's new doco) Cheers, Nick. -- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan@gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia --------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.boredomandlaziness.org
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