Downloading alpha releases; a good idea?
Skip Montanaro
skip at pobox.com
Thu Aug 23 15:54:33 EDT 2001
Jesse> How unstable are alpha releases? I now have Python 2.0 and am
Jesse> thinking about updating. Should I go to 2.1(.1, of course), wait
Jesse> for 2.2 final, or get 2.2.a2 which is out now? And if I go with
Jesse> 2.1.1 should I update to 2.2 final when it comes out?
Most Python releases tend to actually be pretty stable, alpha, beta, or
otherwise. If you want to play around with new features, then by all means,
download the various prerelease versions. Otherwise, 2.1.1 is your best
bet. You can also point your source tree at the CVS repository and be even
more bleeding edge than the alpha releases. It also makes it fairly easy to
go back and forth between various releases by cvs updating to particular
release names.
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