What went wrong in Python1.6 ?

[Roy Smith]

Rhymes <raims at dot.com> wrote:
> Now I ask my self: what went wrong in that release? Where i could find
> some further infos about this "miscarriage" ?

As far as I know, nothing was really "wrong" with 1.6, other than 
timing.  IIRC, the final release announcement for 1.6 came out the very 
same day that the alpha 2.0 release announcement was made.  Most people 
were running 1.5.2 and didn't see the point in upgrading to 1.6 now and 
then 2.0 a short time later, so they just waited for 2.0 to go final.