[Python-Dev] peps: Update with bugfix releases.

Ned Deily nad at acm.org
Sun Feb 5 21:34:26 CET 2012


In article 
<20120205204551.Horde.NCdeYVNNcXdPLtxvnkzi1lA at webmail.df.eu>,
 martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

> > I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly  
> > broken releases.  Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly  
> > new either.  Another few weeks can't make that much of a difference.
> 
> Why would the release be truly broken? It surely can't be worse than
> the current releases (which apparently aren't truly broken, else
> there would have been no point in releasing them back then).

They were broken by the release of OS X 10.7 and Xcode 4.2 which were 
subsequent to the previous releases.  None of the currently available 
python.org installers provide a fully working system on OS X 10.7, or on 
OS X 10.6 if the user has installed Xcode 4.2 for 10.6.

-- 
 Ned Deily,
 nad at acm.org



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