[Python-Dev] Fwd: Broken link to download (Mac OS X) (original) (raw)

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Apr 14 18🔞01 CEST 2010

On 14/04/2010 18:01, skip at pobox.com wrote:

Michael> Mac users definitely do expect installers. Building Python Michael> requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to be Michael> installed.

XCode is free, and I suspect many people have it (I do).

Sure - but probably not your average Python-on-Mac user. Or at least a good proportion of them, particularly newbies who we are keen to keep the experience of obtaining Python simple. First download and then install 1gigabyte of developer tools (seriously) requiring registration, then compile Python from source yourself, is not the way to go. (And yes the XCode tools are included in the OS disks - but not the latest versions, especially if you are still running Leopard.)

Michael> Even then, building a full version of Python - with all the C Michael> extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a trivial Michael> task.

Isn't that just a matter of having the recipe written down somewhere?

Yes, that would be nice. :-) Preferably a recipe that doesn't involve Macports or Fink which some of us are allergic to.

Michael

Skip

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