[Python-Dev] outdated info on download pages for older versions

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed May 2 20:33:33 CEST 2012


On 02.05.2012 17:55, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 5/2/2012 10:16 AM, Carl Meyer wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Are the download pages for older Python versions supposed to be kept up
>> to date at all? I just noticed that the 2.4.6 download page
>> (http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.4.6/) says things like
>> "Python 2.4 is now in security-fix-only mode" (whereas in fact it no
>> longer gets even security fixes), and "Python 2.6 is the latest release
>> of Python."
>>
>> While checking to see if there was a SIG that would be more appropriate
>> for this question, I also noticed that if one clicks on Community |
>> Mailing Lists in the left sidebar of python.org, there's a "Special
>> Interest Groups" link under "Mailing Lists" which is a 404 (not to
>> mention redundant, as there's also one parallel to "Mailing Lists" that
>> works).
>>
>> (Please do let me know if there is a more appropriate forum for website
>> issues/questions).
>
> I would send the above to webmaster at python.org (should be at the bottom
> of pages).

Please don't (unless you want your message ignored).

Regards,
Martin



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