I'm +0 on this -- but someone else needs to do the work. ----- Forwarded message from "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk> -----
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 18:50:32 +0100 From: "Silas S. Brown" <ssb22@cam.ac.uk> To: webmaster@python.org Cc: dietmar@schwertberger.de, dietmar1@schwertberger.de, dietmar2@schwertberger.de Subject: Missing Python RISC OS port
Dear Python maintainers,
http://www.python.org/download/other says that RISC OS binaries for Python are maintained by Dietmar Schwertberger at www.schwertberger.de. That site redirects to freenet-homepage.de/schwertberger or people.freenet.de/schwertberger/ , and it seems that this has lapsed (it takes you to a generic "domains available" page). Additionally, it is not possible to compile Python from source without a patched version of the DLK library which was on Schwertberger's page.
Eventually, I found the binaries at http://web.archive.org/web/20071223061900/http://python.acorn.de/ Would it be possible to retrieve these and save them on python.org so they don't disappear?
I know the number of people using this port is now low, but when somebody does need it they really need it. (For example I've lost the copy that was on my hard drive and need to re-download.)
Thanks.
Silas
-- Silas S Brown http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/ssb22
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