[Python-Dev] Should we help pythonmac.org?

[Guido van Rossum]

Alternatively, I just got mail from Bob Ippolito indicating that he'd
be happy to hand over the domain to the PSF. It's got quite a bit more
on it than Python distros, and it's a fairly popular resource for Mac
users I imagine. However macports.org seems to have more Python stuff,
and has a more recent version of 2.5. (2.5.2). Perhaps we should link
to macports.org instead?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote:
> On Aug 18, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have connections with the owners of pythonmac.org?
>> Apparently they are serving up an ancient version of Python 2.5. The
>> Google App Engine has a minor issue in 2.5 that's solved in 2.5.1, but
>> that is apparently not available from that site. Perhaps we can
>> contribute more recent Mac versions, or provide them directly on
>> python.org? (The Downloads -> Macintosh page points to pythonmac.org,
>> which means lots of All Engine users download this old version.)
>
> I'd be happy to arrange things with a Mac expert to put the Mac binaries on
> the download site.

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