[Twisted-Python] Twisted 8.0.0pre1

Chris Mellon arkanes at gmail.com
Tue Mar 18 09:50:53 MDT 2008


On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Jean-Paul Calderone
<exarkun at divmod.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:37:12 -0400, Itamar Shtull-Trauring <itamar at itamarst.org> wrote:
>  >
>  >On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 17:01 +0300, Burus Gmail wrote:
>  >> Hm... Why 8.0 ? It's special edition =)?
>  >
>  >The new versioning scheme uses the current year (2008) as the basis for
>  >overall releases. Twisted Core will be version 2.6.
>
>  Actually we decided that this was confusing and didn't provide much benefit,
>  so everything is going to be 8.0.  As a consequence, it will be easier to tell
>  when a Twisted installation is bogus, because the version number of the sub-
>  projects won't match up with each other or with the overall Twisted version
>  number.
>
>
>  >
>  >> In the official resource i find only this
>  >> http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/ReleaseAutomation.
>  >> Where i can read more about new features
>  >
>  >There should be a NEWS file in the tarball.
>  >
>
>  Yep, a really big one that David Reid and Christopher Armstrong spent a lot
>  of time writing up.
>


The tarball at http://twistedmatrix.com/users/radix/DIST/Twisted-8.0.0pre1.tar.bz2
only has the LICENSE and README files (which incidentally is still for
2.5).




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