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

[Barry Warsaw]

On Apr 14, 2010, at 10:51 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>    Steve> Why is it unavoidable that the Mac build will languish behind
>    Steve> others?  Are we supporting MacOs or aren't we? If we are, why
>    Steve> isn't the creation of the build a part of the release process?
>
>    Steve> Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or
>    Steve> had time to) reply to this mail in three weeks.
>
>I'm not sure who normally creates the Mac distribution, perhaps Ronald
>Ousorren?  It would appear that either Ronald (or whoever) has been
>unavailable or there was no coordination between the Mac and non-Mac folks
>involved in the release.
>
>I'm willing to give it a whirl (I have both a MacBook Pro and a PowerMac G5
>at home - both running Max OSX 10.5.x (Leopard)) though I will almost
>certainly need a cheat sheet for the process.  I normally treat my Macs as
>Unix boxes from a Python perspective so don't make framework builds.

From the RM perspective, what I would really like to see is updates to
the release.py script to check dependencies and automate as much as possible,
as well as updates to PEP 101 for any process steps that can't be automated.

This goes for both Windows and OS X.

-Barry
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