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

[Bill Janssen]

Ned Deily <nad at acm.org> wrote:

> In article <4BC54F4F.4090307 at v.loewis.de>,
>  "Martin v. Lowis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> 
> > > 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 inherent problem remains. There is no binary for 2.7b1, for example.
> > The last binaries produced in the 2.7 testing process were for 2.7a2.
> 
> That's true.  But there wouldn't be a traditional OS X installer for 
> 2.7b1 anyway since it turns out it is not possible to build a multi-arch 
> installer without patching because of a bug that wasn't caught before 
> the code cutoff since there are no OS X buildbots that test that 
> configuration.  But, at the moment, there aren't any OS X buildbots at 
> all, are there?  That *is* something that the PSF could help with.  I 
> would be happy to help with that myself

I'd be happy to help where I can, too.  All my automated testing of
UpLib (Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, OS X) is done on Apple servers running
OS X and VirtualBox and Hudson, so I've got some experience there.

Bill