On 14/04/2010 07:17, Steve Holden wrote:
[snip...]
In a wider sense of "to support", MacOS is certainly supported by
Python. There is everything in the source code that you need to make
Python run on a Mac. Just download the sources and compile them yourself.
And yet we don't regard the Windows release as complete until you have
built the binaries (for which service you deserve many thanks, by the way).
Is the Mac platform one on which users will be happy to compile from
source? I know its users are savvier than Windows users, and have a
better tool set available to them, but they still seem to expect
downloadable installers.
Mac users definitely *do* expect installers. 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.
All the best,
Michael Foord
Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or had
time to) reply to this mail in three weeks.
That is not surprising: none of the webmaster people would be able to
answer the question. python-dev is indeed the right place to ask.
I thought I'd picked this thread off python-dev. What point am I not
understanding here?
regards
Steve
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