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On 4/15/2014 1:03 AM, Marko Rauhamaa wrote:
> Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>:
>
>> Any decent system should have 3.4 available now.
>
> Really, now? Which system is that?

3.4.0 was released a month ago with Windows and Mac installers and 
source for everything else. I know Ubuntu was testing the release 
candidate so I presume it is or will very soon have 3.4 officially 
available. Since there was a six month series of alpha, beta, and 
candidate releases, with an approximate final release data, any 
distribution that wanted to be up to date also could be.

This is all quite aside from the fact that one should be able to unpack 
a tarball and 'make xxx'.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy