Why is it unavoidable that the Mac build will languish behind others? Are we supporting MacOs or aren't we? If we are, why isn't the creation of the build a part of the release process? Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or had time to) reply to this mail in three weeks. regards Steve webmaster@python.org wrote:
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):
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
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