Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread Bill Janssen
NEWS was broken long before the new site. Bill ___ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 19-apr-2006, at 22:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ronald> It is annoying that www.python.org/download/mac doesn't > mention > Ronald> the universal installer. > > It does now. It will take a few minutes for the global build > process to > update the website, but I checked in a m

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 19-apr-2006, at 22:06, Bill Janssen wrote: >> It is annoying that www.python.org/download/mac doesn't mention the >> universal installer. Could someone please fix that? > > Will do. Should this replace the dual-installer procedure that's > mentioned there? For both 10.3 and 10.4? The univer

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread skip
Ronald> It is annoying that www.python.org/download/mac doesn't mention Ronald> the universal installer. It does now. It will take a few minutes for the global build process to update the website, but I checked in a minimal change to Subversion. Skip

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread skip
Bill> But the NEWS section of python.org is totally disfunctional. Bill> Months go by without anyone bothering to add anything to it; I Bill> think the trouble is that no one knows what the "add" procedure Bill> is. I tend to agree with you. Given all the recent changes to the sit

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread Bill Janssen
> It is annoying that www.python.org/download/mac doesn't mention the > universal installer. Could someone please fix that? Will do. Should this replace the dual-installer procedure that's mentioned there? For both 10.3 and 10.4? Bill ___ Pythonmac-SI

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 18-apr-2006, at 22:59, Advertising Department wrote: > (I'm totally confused about the nine versions of python for Mac OS X, > the defunct or just not updated for 2 years MacPython pages, the > current state of the macintosh specific library modules, etc.) > > To give my 2 cents... > It doesn'

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-19 Thread has
Bill Janssen wrote: > In my opinion, the problem is the term "MacPython". Python is Python, > period, and we should just call it that, even if it's running on the Mac > platform. Perhaps this was different in the pre-OSX days, but not now. On OS X I think of the 'MacPython' name more as a way t

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD...Long Live Python on the Mac

2006-04-18 Thread Daniel Lord
On Apr 18, 2006, at 16:46, Terry Jones wrote: > | In my opinion, the problem is the term "MacPython". Python is > Python, > | period, and we should just call it that, even if it's running on > the Mac > | platform. Perhaps this was different in the pre-OSX days, but > not now. > > Make th

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Terry Jones
| In my opinion, the problem is the term "MacPython". Python is Python, | period, and we should just call it that, even if it's running on the Mac | platform. Perhaps this was different in the pre-OSX days, but not now. Make that 4 cents on dropping the "Mac". The MacPython name is, to my ears,

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Bill Janssen
> To give my 2 cents... > It doesn't really matter about a logo, icon, or universal build. If > there is no recent info on the OFFICIAL python.org linked web pages, > most new users will think it's become defunct, and look no further. Apparently this guy got past the main python.org page, with

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Charlie Moad
On 4/18/06, kernel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 18 Apr 2006, at 21:59, Advertising Department wrote: > > > (I'm totally confused about the nine versions of python for Mac OS X, > > the defunct or just not updated for 2 years MacPython pages, the > > current state of the macintosh specific librar

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Charles Hartman
It seems to me that it would be a good idea to UNLINK this site (http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/) -- remove all links to it from pythonmac.org, to begin with. In fact, I'd call it urgent. Charles Hartman On Apr 18, 2006, at 4:59 PM, Advertising Department wrote: > (I'm totally con

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Bill Janssen
Advertising Department, In my opinion, the problem is the term "MacPython". Python is Python, period, and we should just call it that, even if it's running on the Mac platform. Perhaps this was different in the pre-OSX days, but not now. I'd be happy to go though all the pages on python.org and

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread kernel
On 18 Apr 2006, at 21:59, Advertising Department wrote: > (I'm totally confused about the nine versions of python for Mac OS X, > the defunct or just not updated for 2 years MacPython pages, the > current state of the macintosh specific library modules, etc.) > > To give my 2 cents... > It doesn't

[Pythonmac-SIG] Mac Python is DEAD

2006-04-18 Thread Advertising Department
(I'm totally confused about the nine versions of python for Mac OS X, the defunct or just not updated for 2 years MacPython pages, the current state of the macintosh specific library modules, etc.) To give my 2 cents... It doesn't really matter about a logo, icon, or universal build. If ther