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

[Bill Janssen]

Martin v. Löwis <martin at v.loewis.de> 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.

Apparently not, according to Ronald's recent mail.  I'd be happy to help
with whatever remaining capture is necessary for OS X -- not automating
this kind of thing is nuts.  My buildbots build UpLib, and most of its
optional packages (including ghostscript, xpdf, libtiff, openssl, t1lib,
Lucene, PyLucene, etc.) from source every night, and whenever I do an
UpLib check-in.  On Linux and OS X, right now -- I'm working on Windows
right now.

> 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).

Well, God forbid they should ever be hit by a bus!  This kind of thing
needs to be written down.

Bill