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

[Michael Foord]

On 14/04/2010 21:37, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:
> [snip...]
>> Unfortunately the Mac installer build script doesn't seem to run at all
>> on Mac OS X 10.6 (at least not on my machine),  but hopefully the
>> situation is clarified so that one of us who does still have Mac OS X
>> 10.5 will be able to build the installer in a timely manner for the next
>> release should Ronald be too busy.
>>      
> I'm not sure whether 10.5 would be sufficient - it may be that you need
> to go back to 10.4 (*). Unfortunately, Apple manages to break
> compatibility and portability with every release, which makes this
> particular build task soooo tricky. You have to make all kinds of
> decisions and compromises where are really difficult to keep track of.
>
>    

In an earlier email Ronald said:

>
> Creating the Mac installer is easy: just run 
> Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on an OSX 10.5 system where a local 
> version of Tcl/Tk 8.4 is installed in /Library/Frameworks. The system 
> should also not have fink or darwinports and a clean /usr/local tree 
> to avoid contaminating the build.

I can't verify that this is correct, I can verify it that the 
build-installer script doesn't appear to work under 10.6.

Michael


> Regards,
> Martin
>
> (*) I know that this is the version I had to go back to when I created
> OSX binaries for 2.5.x.
>    


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