[Python-Dev] Should we help pythonmac.org? (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Mon Aug 18 23:06:46 CEST 2008

The major difference between the packages on macports and pythonmac.org is that macports is their own distro of nearly everything, akin to installing a copy of FreeBSD over top of Mac OS X. pythonmac.org contains packages that are self-contained and don't have a whole new set of libraries to install (in the cases where they do require libraries, they link them in statically for the most part).

These days I don't have a lot of preference, I don't use either :)

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Alternatively, I just got mail from Bob Ippolito indicating that he'd be happy to hand over the domain to the PSF. It's got quite a bit more on it than Python distros, and it's a fairly popular resource for Mac users I imagine. However macports.org seems to have more Python stuff, and has a more recent version of 2.5. (2.5.2). Perhaps we should link to macports.org instead?

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org> wrote: On Aug 18, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Does anyone have connections with the owners of pythonmac.org? Apparently they are serving up an ancient version of Python 2.5. The Google App Engine has a minor issue in 2.5 that's solved in 2.5.1, but that is apparently not available from that site. Perhaps we can contribute more recent Mac versions, or provide them directly on python.org? (The Downloads -> Macintosh page points to pythonmac.org, which means lots of All Engine users download this old version.) I'd be happy to arrange things with a Mac expert to put the Mac binaries on the download site. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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