In article <20120205204551.Horde.NCdeYVNNcXdPLtxvnkzi1lA@webmail.df.eu>, martin@v.loewis.de wrote:
I understand that but, to me, it makes no sense to send out truly broken releases. Besides, the hash collision attack is not exactly new either. Another few weeks can't make that much of a difference.
Why would the release be truly broken? It surely can't be worse than the current releases (which apparently aren't truly broken, else there would have been no point in releasing them back then).
They were broken by the release of OS X 10.7 and Xcode 4.2 which were subsequent to the previous releases. None of the currently available python.org installers provide a fully working system on OS X 10.7, or on OS X 10.6 if the user has installed Xcode 4.2 for 10.6. -- Ned Deily, nad@acm.org