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

[webmaster at python.org]

Hey all,

This seems to happen whenever we do a new release (we've had a couple of 
emails to webmaster at python.org about it since 2.6.5 was released). The 
main download page for Python has a broken link for the Mac installer 
(because it hasn't been built yet I assume):

     http://python.org/download/

The link 404s, with no explanation or alternate link - so for the casual 
user who wants to install Python 2.6 on Mac OS X they are 
sorely-out-of-luck.

Not being able to provide a mac installer at the same time as other 
platforms is one thing (and I accept that is unavoidable), breaking the 
download links for Mac users for unspecified lengths of time is just bad 
practise. If we create a new stable release without a Mac installer can 
we at least provide a brief explanation and link to the *previous 
version* until the new version is ready?

All the best,

Michael

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Broken link to down
Date: 	Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:40:36 +0000
From: 	Ben Hodgson <ben at benhodgson.com>
To: 	webmaster at python.org



Hey there,

In case you don't know, the link on http://www.python.org/download/ to 
the Python 2.6.5 Mac Installer Disk Image 
(http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5_macosx10.3.dmg) is 
broken.

Cheers,
Ben

--
Ben Hodgson
http://benhodgson.com/

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