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

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Sun Apr 18 17:19:15 CEST 2010 
On 18 Apr, 2010, at 17:17, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

> Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>> On 15 Apr, 2010, at 6:36, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>> 
>>> Greg Ewing wrote:
>>>> Michael Foord wrote:
>>>>> Building Python requires, I believe, the XCode development tools to be
>>>>> installed. Even then, building a full version of Python - with *all*
>>>>> the C extensions that are part of a Python release - is not a trivial
>>>>> task.
>>>> What's non-trivial about it? 
>>> Building a DMG file, in a way that the output will actually work on most
>>> other systems.
>> 
>> That *is* trivial: use Mac/BuildScript/build-installer.py on OSX 10.5. 
> 
> Hmm. When I tried it (on some 2.5 release), it took me two days until it
> produced something.

It should be much improved in 2.6 and later, please file a bug if it doesn't work for you.

Ronald
> 
> Regards,
> Martin

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