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

["Martin v. Löwis"]

Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> On 15 Apr, 2010, at 6:36, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>> Greg Ewing wrote:
>>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> What's non-trivial about it? 
>> Building a DMG file, in a way that the output will actually work on most
>> other systems.
> 
> That *is* trivial: use Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on OSX 10.5. 

Hmm. When I tried it (on some 2.5 release), it took me two days until it
produced something.

Regards,
Martin