How to make an announcement (was Re: ANN: GMPY binaries for Windows 2.5)

[beliavsky at aol.com]

casevh at comcast.net wrote:
> GMPY binaries for Python 2.5 are available at
> http://home.comcast.net/~casevh/

"The General Multiprecision PYthon project (GMPY) focuses on
Python-usable modules providing multiprecision arithmetic functionality
to Python programmers."

A sign of Python's health is that there are so many open-source
projects that it is difficult to keep track of all of them. I think
announcements should contain at least one sentence describing what the
project is about. One can Google this, of course, but it saves the
reader time if this information is provided in the message.

>
> Notes
> ====
> They have not been extensively tested.
>
> This is based on the CVS version of gmpy and includes a patch (not yet
> in CVS) from Alex Martelli that resolves a bug with divm(). Please
> consider this an "unofficial" release. The patch and the source code
> snapshot I used are also available on the website.
>
> GMP 4.2.1 is used.
>
> There are three versions available: one that should work on any
> processor, one compiled for Pentium 4 processor, and one compiled for
> AMD Athlon (32-bit).
>
> If there is demand, I'll create updated binaries for earlier version of
> Python.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> casevh