FWD: FTP URLs for Python source
Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I
couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if
anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to
python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-)
----- Forwarded message from "Douglas W. Goodall"
From: "Douglas W. Goodall"
To: webmaster@python.org Subject: made too hard... Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:57:15 -0800 Dear Sir,
I am not sure why, but you have made it harder than it has to be to fetch the python source for installation on a unix system such as OpenBSD.
I had to use the command line ftp client and it took a lot of time to discover the real URL of the download file.
Here is what ended up working.
ftp http://www.e you made it this hard on purpose. Yes, it is easy if you are using a web browser, but if you are on a unix system without X it is a pain to get it when you don't know how.
You might want to add the ftp URL to the web page for people like me.
Respectfully,
Doug
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----- End forwarded message ----- -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aahz wrote:
Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-)
I don't think it needs any action, except perhaps a half-polite response that we don't intend to change anything. a) if you are really sitting on the console of an OpenBSD system with no X installed, use lynx, or any other text browser: scroll down to "Source distribution", hit Enter b) alternatively, and even better: don't build Python from source at all. Instead, use pkg_add to install the Python version that you want, downloadable from ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/<rel>/packages/<arch>/python-<ver>.tgz c) OTOH, if you had only connected to the OpenBSD system remotely (e.g. through ssh), just use your local web browser, to either * determine the full source download URL of the Python release you want to build, then wget on the target system, or * if your target system doesn't have wget, download it locally, then scp/rcp/ftp it to the target system. We cannot add an FTP URL to the download page, because we don't run an ftp server anymore, and don't plan to. [I don't quite get the "Here is what ended up working" part. What is http://www.e?] Regards, Martin
Aahz wrote:
Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-)
Regarding OpenBSD, what's the problem with just using the port -- the 2.6 version seems to work fine. -- Sent from my mobile device
On Sat, May 23, 2009, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
We cannot add an FTP URL to the download page, because we don't run an ftp server anymore, and don't plan to.
That's the critical bit. At this point, I don't think anything else needs doing. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
* if your target system doesn't have wget, download it locally, then scp/rcp/ftp it to the target system.
All of [Free|Net|Open|Dragonfly]BSD have ftp clients that can also retrieve HTTP URLs, though I guess many wouldn't think of that... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia
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"Martin v. Löwis"
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Aahz
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Andrew MacIntyre
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Hasan Diwan