On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Barry Warsaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Aug 18, 2008, at 6:13 PM, Fred Drake wrote: > >> On Aug 18, 2008, at 5:42 PM, Steve Holden wrote: >>> >>> Someone told me the other day that macports made for difficult installs, >>> but not being a Mac user I wasn't in a position to evaluate the advice. >> >> Not being a Mac user either, I've been using Mac OS X for about a year now >> for most of my development. >> >> I've got mixed feelings about macports: It's painful to use, compared to >> things like rpm and apt, but... it might be the best that's available for >> the Mac. >> >> I'm not going to trust it to give me a usable Python, though, in spite of >> not having had problems with Pythons it provides. Just 'cause I've gotten >> paranoid. > > I use macports too, mostly for stuff I'm too lazy to build from source. I'm > sure there's a Python in there, but like Fred, I don't use it. > > I do agree that we could and probably should maintain any Mac Python content > on the main python.org site, but also if Bob wants to donate the domain, we > can just have it forward to www.python.org/allyourmacsarebelongtous
We already do that for the wiki, we could do that for the other parts of the site just as easily (even without or before a transfer of ownership) :) I'm happy to pay for the domain and hosting, I just don't have a lot of spare cycles these days unless I need something at work. -bob _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com