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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Apr 14 19:27:19 CEST 2010

On 14/04/2010 19:25, Steve Holden wrote:

Michael Foord wrote:

On 14/04/2010 06:13, Ned Deily wrote:

In article<hq3e52$8oj$1 at dough.gmane.org>, Steve Holden<steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

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. Wasn't that problem fixed weeks ago? The installer image has been available there since several days after the release. And the link seems fine now. The problem is the process that creates a new release with a 404 link to the Mac installer with no explanation. The 2.6.5 release (as always) caused several requests to webmaster from Mac users unable to download Python - which is a further waste of volunteer time as well as a cause of frustration for users. Building the Mac installer requires volunteer time which I'm not sure that more hardware will fix - compiling a full build of Python for Mac OS X (with all the Python modules like Tkinter etc) requires expertise which only a few people have. A Mac OS X machine (and location to keep it) for the buildbots is a big need however. How about as a first step the release build process include a check for broken links before committing the web content for a new release? Yes - needed but orthogonal. :-)

Michael

regards Steve

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