[pydotorg-www] FWD: adding a link on the Python download page

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Am 03.10.2011 09:02, schrieb Chris Withers:
> On 02/10/2011 21:58, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>> Aahz wrote:
>>> What do people think?  I'm -0 because I've never heard of this before
>>> (they haven't been posting to c.l.py.announce) and because they're using
>>> 2.7.1 more than three months after 2.7.2 was released.
>>
>> I'm +1 on this. The more options available for the user, the
>> better.
> 
> That doesn't follow for me.
> Why are more options better?
> 
> "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."
> 
> Having a bucketload of linked distros is just going to be confusing for
> new users...

If that was a policy, we shouldn't point to any distribution other than
the one from python.org at all. However, people (rightfully) insist that
python.org is not just about CPython. So we should allow alternative
distributions to be mentioned (if not hosted), and then we should apply
"fair" criteria as to what to include. "If it's a Python distribution,
and if they ask to be included" sounds fair enough to me.

Regards,
Martin