[Python-Dev] Guido's Python 1.0.0 Announcement from 27 Jan 1994

[Dan Stromberg]

We probably should (if possible) create an archive (with dates) of
very old (or all, actually) versions of CPython, analogous to what The
Unix Heritage Society does for V5, V7, etc., but for CPython...

Or is there one already?  I found a bunch of 1.x's, but no 0.x's.
What I found was at http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/

I realize modern OS's and C compilers won't cope with them anymore,
and there'll be some security holes so you wouldn't use them in
production, but it'd be an interesting history lesson to set up a
matching set for the various releases using virtualboxes or something.

I've been getting some mileage, actually, out of:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/cpythons/trunk/  (build cpythons 2.4
and up, and stash them each in /usr/local/cpython-*)
...and:
http://stromberg.dnsalias.org/svn/pythons/trunk/  (run python code on
a variety of interpreters to test for compatibility, including a bunch
of CPythons, some pypys, jython, micropython, hopefully more someday,
like maybe nuitka)

It'd be kind of cool to add an authenticated way of running python
commands on a remote host to check even older versions.

I tried to get "cpythons" to build cpython 2.3 on a modern Linux, but
it didn't appear practical.  But 2.4 and up have been working well.

On Sat, Jan 27, 2018 at 1:57 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> Actually Python was born in December 1989 and first released open source in
> February 1991. I don't recall what version number that was, perhaps 0.1.0.
> The 1994 date was just the release of 1.0!