This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple
of emails to webmaster@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 <ben@benhodgson.com>
To:
webmaster@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.