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

[Steve Holden]

Michael Foord wrote:
> 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.
> 
How about as a first step the release build process include a check for
broken links before committing the web content for a new release?

regards
 Steve
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