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

Michael Foord fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk
Wed Apr 14 21:41:46 CEST 2010

On 14/04/2010 21:37, "Martin v. Löwis" wrote:

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Unfortunately the Mac installer build script doesn't seem to run at all on Mac OS X 10.6 (at least not on my machine), but hopefully the situation is clarified so that one of us who does still have Mac OS X 10.5 will be able to build the installer in a timely manner for the next release should Ronald be too busy.

I'm not sure whether 10.5 would be sufficient - it may be that you need to go back to 10.4 (*). Unfortunately, Apple manages to break compatibility and portability with every release, which makes this particular build task soooo tricky. You have to make all kinds of decisions and compromises where are really difficult to keep track of.

In an earlier email Ronald said:

Creating the Mac installer is easy: just run Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on an OSX 10.5 system where a local version of Tcl/Tk 8.4 is installed in /Library/Frameworks. The system should also not have fink or darwinports and a clean /usr/local tree to avoid contaminating the build.

I can't verify that this is correct, I can verify it that the build-installer script doesn't appear to work under 10.6.

Michael

Regards, Martin

(*) I know that this is the version I had to go back to when I created OSX binaries for 2.5.x.

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