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Hey all,<br>
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This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple
of emails to <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:webmaster@python.org">webmaster@python.org</a> about it since 2.6.5 was released).
The main download page for Python has a broken link for the Mac
installer (because it hasn't been built yet I assume):<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://python.org/download/">http://python.org/download/</a><br>
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The link 404s, with no explanation or alternate link - so for the
casual user who wants to install Python 2.6 on Mac OS X they are
sorely-out-of-luck.<br>
<br>
Not being able to provide a mac installer at the same time as other
platforms is one thing (and I accept that is unavoidable), breaking the
download links for Mac users for unspecified lengths of time is just
bad practise. If we create a new stable release without a Mac installer
can we at least provide a brief explanation and link to the *previous
version* until the new version is ready?<br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
<br>
Michael<br>
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<td>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:36 +0000</td>
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<td>Ben Hodgson <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ben@benhodgson.com"><ben@benhodgson.com></a></td>
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Hey there,
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<div>In case you don't know, the link on <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.python.org/download/">http://www.python.org/download/</a>
to the Python 2.6.5 Mac Installer Disk Image (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg">http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg</a>)
is broken.</div>
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<div>Cheers,<br clear="all">
Ben<br>
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--<br>
Ben Hodgson<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://benhodgson.com/">http://benhodgson.com/</a><br>
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