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

[Michael Foord]

On 14/04/2010 06:13, Ned Deily wrote:
> In article<hq3e52$8oj$1 at dough.gmane.org>,
>   Steve Holden<steve at holdenweb.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> Wasn't that problem fixed weeks ago?  The installer image has been
> available there since several days after the release.  And the link
> seems fine now.
>
>    
The problem is the process that creates a new release with a 404 link to 
the Mac installer with no explanation. The 2.6.5 release (as always) 
caused several requests to webmaster from Mac users unable to download 
Python - which is a further waste of volunteer time as well as a cause 
of frustration for users.

Building the Mac installer requires volunteer time which I'm not sure 
that more hardware will fix - compiling a full build of Python for Mac 
OS X (with all the Python modules like Tkinter etc) requires expertise 
which only a few people have.

A Mac OS X machine (and location to keep it) for the buildbots is a 
*big* need however.

All the best,

Michael

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