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

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Aug 18 23:06:46 CEST 2008


The major difference between the packages on macports and
pythonmac.org is that macports is their own distro of nearly
everything, akin to installing a copy of FreeBSD over top of Mac OS X.
pythonmac.org contains packages that are self-contained and don't have
a whole new set of libraries to install (in the cases where they do
require libraries, they link them in statically for the most part).

These days I don't have a lot of preference, I don't use either :)

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
>


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