[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4

[MRAB]

On 2012-10-03 16:28, Brian Curtin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Larry Hastings <larry at hastings.org> wrote:
>> On 10/03/2012 04:55 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
>>
>> Regardless of when the first alpha happens, I'll be promoting the hell
>> out of it, begging for feedback on any of these changes that are
>> available by then (which should be quite a few, given the preceding
>> PyCon US sprints).
>>
>>
>> If you can show me people who use the alphas who want them earlier, I'll
>> consider it.  So far the only person who's said they want them is you, and
>> IIUC you won't be a consumer of the alpha per se.
>>
>> Begging for feedback doesn't mean you'll get any,
>
> This doesn't answer the question of the users wanting the alphas
> earlier, but they're certainly more than largely ignored...
>
> The webstats in April 2012 show 5628 downloads of 3.3a1 and 4946
> downloads of 3.3a2 Windows installers.
>
I downloaded the alphas to test the support for PEP 393 I'd added to
the regex module.

Not having to build Python 3.3 from source certainly helped _me_! :-)