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Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3

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From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
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Subject	Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3
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Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:

> > If you're pleased to announce their immediate availability, then
> > please do that!
>
> Isn't it perfectly accurate to say that the RCs are now available?

Yes. What's not reasonable is to say that a candidate for release – i.e.
something *prior to* release, by definition – is nevertheless released.

> Considering that "Release candidates" immediately followed "RELEASED"
> in the subject line, I don't see any confusion.

Unless “release candidate” means nothing like what those words imply, it
can't be both a release candidate *and* released.

Either it's released, or it's not. If it's a release candidate, it's not
released yet. If it's released, it's no longer a candidate for release.

Saying it's simultaneously both is the confusion.

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Ben Finney

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[RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> - 2012-02-25 12:56 -0500
  Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-02-26 19:51 +1100
    Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-26 20:03 +1100
      Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-02-26 23:21 +1100
        Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2012-02-27 00:01 +1100
        Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-02-26 13:08 +0000
        Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Jean-Michel Pichavant <jeanmichel@sequans.com> - 2012-02-27 15:23 +0100
    Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2012-02-26 17:20 -0500
    Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5,	and 3.2.3 Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org> - 2012-02-27 14:16 +0000
      Re: [RELEASED] Release candidates for Python 2.6.8, 2.7.3, 3.1.5, and 3.2.3 Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2012-02-28 08:30 +1100

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