Add weasel-words about versioning, so I don't have to check in a new

README for each new alpha release.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 69b89ddc85143a620765e481ba377934b4ad84ff..519c543e0dd5fda9cd48d276422cdfd959704e75 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
-This is Python version 1.6 -- released March 31, 2000
-=====================================================
+This is Python version 1.6
+==========================
+
+There are various alpha and beta versions -- these are distinguishable
+through Include/patchlevel.h or by the name of the top-level directory
+and the tar file.
 
 
 What's new in this release?