[Python-Dev] This Project Has Not Released Any Files

[Eric S. Raymond]

Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin@mems-exchange.org>:
> I like pythonX.X.tar.gz best, and will change the filenames (leaving
> bc-compat symlinks for py152.tgz and pyth151.tgz) unless vetoed.
> Though isn't the standard GNU naming convention more like
> python-1.5.tar.gz?

It is, and I wish we'd move to it as did the Perl guys.  It makes life
substantially easier to have really uniform naming conventions,
especially for programs like the Metalabs file clerk.
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