On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > Then why is there a link on the download site? > > Where specifically did you spot that link? I can't see any. > Copied from the download page: - Python 2.6 compressed source tarball<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tgz>(for Linux, Unix or OS X) - Python 2.6 bzipped source tarball<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/Python-2.6.tar.bz2>(for Linux, Unix or OS X, more compressed) - Python 2.6 Windows installer<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.msi> (Windows binary -- does not include source) - Python 2.6 Windows AMD64 installer<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.amd64.msi>(Windows AMD64 binary -- does not include source) - *Python 2.6 Windows Itanium installer<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6.ia64.msi>(Windows Itanium binary -- does not include source) * - Python 2.6 for Macintosh OS X<http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6/python-2.6-macosx.dmg>-- this is a universal installer that runs native on both PPC and Intel Macs. > > You are saying that > > for python 2.6 forward, there is no plan to support a stock python for > > IA64? Is there any particular reason why this is so? > > Yes. It's too much effort to build, and too few users that actually > use it. Users are still free to build it themselves, and to share > the build with others. > > Regards, > Martin > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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