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. regards Steve webmas...@python.org wrote: > 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/ > -- Steve Holden +1 571 484 6266 +1 800 494 3119 See PyCon Talks from Atlanta 2010 http://pycon.blip.tv/ Holden Web LLC http://www.holdenweb.com/ UPCOMING EVENTS: http://holdenweb.eventbrite.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
