[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X)

[Steve Holden]

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 at python.org wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple of
> emails to webmaster at 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):
> 
>     http://python.org/download/
> 
> 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 at benhodgson.com>
> To: 	webmaster at 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
> 
> --
> Ben Hodgson
> http://benhodgson.com/
> 


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