Michael Foord wrote: > On 14/04/2010 06:13, Ned Deily wrote: >> In article<hq3e52$8o...@dough.gmane.org>, >> Steve Holden<st...@holdenweb.com> wrote: >> >> >>> Why is it unavoidable that the Mac build will languish behind others? >>> Are we supporting MacOs or aren't we? If we are, why isn't the creation >>> of the build a part of the release process? >>> >>> Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or had >>> time to) reply to this mail in three weeks. >>> >> Wasn't that problem fixed weeks ago? The installer image has been >> available there since several days after the release. And the link >> seems fine now. >> >> > The problem is the process that creates a new release with a 404 link to > the Mac installer with no explanation. The 2.6.5 release (as always) > caused several requests to webmaster from Mac users unable to download > Python - which is a further waste of volunteer time as well as a cause > of frustration for users. > > Building the Mac installer requires volunteer time which I'm not sure > that more hardware will fix - compiling a full build of Python for Mac > OS X (with all the Python modules like Tkinter etc) requires expertise > which only a few people have. > > A Mac OS X machine (and location to keep it) for the buildbots is a > *big* need however. > How about as a first step the release build process include a check for broken links before committing the web content for a new release?
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