On Aug 18, 2008, at 22:06, Bob Ippolito wrote:
The major difference between the packages on macports and
pythonmac.org is that macports is their own distro of nearly
everything, akin to installing a copy of FreeBSD over top of Mac OS X.
pythonmac.org contains packages that are self-contained an
My two cents: the link to pythonmac.org should be removed, especially
for downloading an installer for Python. The main 2.5.x download pages
already have a binary installer for OSX (10.3.9 or later), the copy on
pythonmac.org is just that: an (outdated) copy of the installer on the
main p
The major difference between the packages on macports and
pythonmac.org is that macports is their own distro of nearly
everything, akin to installing a copy of FreeBSD over top of Mac OS X.
pythonmac.org contains packages that are self-contained and don't have
a whole new set of libraries to instal
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.
I can see the desirability of having a Python-specific domain, but then
again if the pydotorg team were going to maintain the content then they
might
Alternatively, I just got mail from Bob Ippolito indicating that he'd
be happy to hand over the domain to the PSF. It's got quite a bit more
on it than Python distros, and it's a fairly popular resource for Mac
users I imagine. However macports.org seems to have more Python stuff,
and has a more re
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On Aug 18, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
Does anyone have connections with the owners of pythonmac.org?
Apparently they are serving up an ancient version of Python 2.5. The
Google App Engine has a minor issue in 2.5 that's solved in 2.5
Guido> Does anyone have connections with the owners of pythonmac.org?
I believe that's Bob Ippolito ([EMAIL PROTECTED] - cc'd).
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Guido> Apparently they are serving up an ancient version of Python
Guido> 2.5. The Google App Engine has a minor issue in 2.5 that's solved
Guido>
Does anyone have connections with the owners of pythonmac.org?
Apparently they are serving up an ancient version of Python 2.5. The
Google App Engine has a minor issue in 2.5 that's solved in 2.5.1, but
that is apparently not available from that site. Perhaps we can
contribute more recent Mac versi
