Hey all,
This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple of
emails to webmas...@python.org about it since 2.6.5 was released). The
main download page for Python has a broken link for the Mac installer
(because it hasn't been built yet I assume):
http://python.org/download/
The link 404s, with no explanation or alternate link - so for the casual
user who wants to install Python 2.6 on Mac OS X they are
sorely-out-of-luck.
Not being able to provide a mac installer at the same time as other
platforms is one thing (and I accept that is unavoidable), breaking the
download links for Mac users for unspecified lengths of time is just bad
practise. If we create a new stable release without a Mac installer can
we at least provide a brief explanation and link to the *previous
version* until the new version is ready?
All the best,
Michael
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Broken link to down
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:36 +0000
From: Ben Hodgson <b...@benhodgson.com>
To: webmas...@python.org
Hey there,
In case you don't know, the link on http://www.python.org/download/ to
the Python 2.6.5 Mac Installer Disk Image
(http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg) is
broken.
Cheers,
Ben
--
Ben Hodgson
http://benhodgson.com/
_______________________________________________
Python-Dev mailing list
Python-Dev@python.org
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev
Unsubscribe:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
