Hey all, This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple of emails to webmaster@python.org 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): http://python.org/download/ 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. 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? All the best, Michael -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Broken link to down Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:36 +0000 From: Ben Hodgson <ben@benhodgson.com> To: webmaster@python.org Hey there, In case you don't know, the link on http://www.python.org/download/ to the Python 2.6.5 Mac Installer Disk Image (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg) is broken. Cheers, Ben -- Ben Hodgson http://benhodgson.com/