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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Thu Apr 15 22:39:15 CEST 2010

What's non-trivial about it? Building a DMG file, in a way that the output will actually work on most other systems. As Ronald pointed out, the installer build script does all of the dirty work of building the install disk image (the .dmg file), including downloading and building necessary third-party libraries.

Hmm. When I tried it last, it didn't do anything - it just crashed. I then had to fix it, and also arrange to meet a certain number of assumptions that it assumed but that had not been setup on my system.

This is some years ago, so I don't recall details.

I think the single most important thing that can be done to help right now is to get a robust system of OS X buildbots going so that many of the critical problems can be detected up front rather than when one of us gets around to building and install testing the multi-arch and multi-version installers.

There is one build slave now up, contributed by David Bolen.

Regards, Martin

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