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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Wed Apr 14 20:41:39 CEST 2010

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.)

That's fine: the official binaries are (deliberately) not built with the latest tool chain.

Regards, Martin

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