404 not found on for Python 2.6 Itanium

[Benjamin Kaplan]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:12 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de>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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