From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 17:11:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add weasel-words about versioning, so I don't have to check in a new
X-Git-Tag: v1.6a2~1
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9144763aaeffb356cde80507ec2e286b31ccb90f;p=python

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 69b89ddc85..519c543e0d 100644
--- 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?