On 14/04/2010 07:17, Steve Holden wrote: > [snip...] >> In a wider sense of "to support", MacOS is certainly supported by >> Python. There is everything in the source code that you need to make >> Python run on a Mac. Just download the sources and compile them yourself. >> >> > And yet we don't regard the Windows release as complete until you have > built the binaries (for which service you deserve many thanks, by the way). > > Is the Mac platform one on which users will be happy to compile from > source? I know its users are savvier than Windows users, and have a > better tool set available to them, but they still seem to expect > downloadable installers. > > Mac users definitely *do* expect installers. 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. All the best, Michael Foord >>> Clearly it's not a priority given that nobody has seen fit to (or had >>> time to) reply to this mail in three weeks. >>> >> That is not surprising: none of the webmaster people would be able to >> answer the question. python-dev is indeed the right place to ask. >> >> > I thought I'd picked this thread off python-dev. What point am I not > understanding here? > > regards > Steve > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
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