What went wrong in Python1.6 ?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> (RS) writes:

RS> 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" ?

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

The license was wrong.
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