[pydotorg-www] Fwd: Please cease using obsolete name "Win32all"

[Michael Foord]

On 25 Jun 2013, at 13:09, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

> On 25.06.2013 13:25, Michael Foord wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Begin forwarded message:
>> 
>>> From: Vernon Cole <kf7xm at msn.com>
>>> Subject: Please cease using obsolete name "Win32all"
>>> Date: 25 June 2013 09:44:57 BST
>>> To: "webmaster at python.org" <webmaster at python.org>
>>> 
>>> Dear Webmaster:
>>> 
>>> As one of the maintainers of the pywin32 project, I would personally like to thank you for the excellent recommendation you provide for our project on the Windows Python download page:
>>> v v v v v
>>> Python for Microsoft Windows (XP and later releases)
>>> Python releases include an excellent Windows installer. See the individual releases for details.
>>> 
>>> You may also wish to download Win32all, Mark Hammond's add-on that includes the Win32 API, COM support, and Pythonwin extensions. It's available from the pywin32 project on SourceForge.
>>> 
>>> ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> 
> 
>>> However, may I emphasize, again, that use of the term “win32all” for the product is years obsolete.  When you next have an opportunity to update this page, you might want to change that term to “pywin32”.  Also, to prevent confusion, you could mention that “pywin32” is also used on 64 bit versions of Windows.
> 
> I've fixed all references as far back as Python 2.4, including
> a few old links to http://www.python.org/windows/win32all which
> no longer work.


Thanks Marc!

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