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

[Michael Foord]

On 14/04/2010 07:17, Steve Holden wrote:
> [snip...]
>> In a wider sense of "to support", MacOS is certainly supported by
>> Python. There is everything in the source code that you need to make
>> Python run on a Mac. Just download the sources and compile them yourself.
>>
>>      
> And yet we don't regard the Windows release as complete until you have
> built the binaries (for which service you deserve many thanks, by the way).
>
> Is the Mac platform one on which users will be happy to compile from
> source? I know its users are savvier than Windows users, and have a
> better tool set available to them, but they still seem to expect
> downloadable installers.
>
>    
Mac users definitely *do* expect installers. Building Python requires, I 
believe, the XCode development tools to be installed. Even then, 
building a full version of Python - with *all* the C extensions that are 
part of a Python release - is not a trivial task.

All the best,


Michael Foord


>>> Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or had
>>> time to) reply to this mail in three weeks.
>>>        
>> That is not surprising: none of the webmaster people would be able to
>> answer the question. python-dev is indeed the right place to ask.
>>
>>      
> I thought I'd picked this thread off python-dev. What point am I not
> understanding here?
>
> regards
>   Steve
>    


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