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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Fri Apr 16 06:17:39 CEST 2010 
Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> Michael Foord <fuzzyman at voidspace.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>> That's nuts.  Why isn't this expertise captured in the form of a script?
> 
> Much of it is, but it still takes expertise to run the script.
> 
> It would take even more expertise to capture the remaining pieces in the
> script, too, and no living person has that much expertise to write the
> script (perhaps there are one or two people, and they don't have the time).
> 
I take it you don't mean to imply that there's a dead person somewhere
with the necessary expertise? [ducks].

regards
 Steve
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