Re: Lilypond code/feature freeze for 2.12

[Trevor Daniels]

Carl Sorensen Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:31 PM


> Trevor Daniels <t.daniels <at> treda.co.uk> writes:
> > John Mandereau
> >
> > > On 2008/09/22, Matthias Neeracher wrote:
> > >> From: "Trevor Daniels" <t.daniels <at> treda.co.uk>
> > >> > Do we -really- want to issue a new stable release
> > >> > containing masses of syntax changes with a broken
> > >> > convert-ly for many Mac users?
> > >> 
> > >> The MacOS Python pages 
> > >> <http://www.python.org/download/mac/> actually
> > >> have fairly detailed download instructions and binary
> > >> installers, so
> > >> as long as the link is included in the documentation, 
> > >> it doesn't seem
> > >> unreasonable to expect users to install this manually.
> > > 
> > I looked at these pages and if I were faced with
> > downloading python I wouldn't know where to start.
> > Maybe that's because I'm totally unfamiliar with
> > Macs, though.
>
> As a Mac user, I went to the page and had no idea where to
> start.
>
> I spent about half an hour trying to find a Python download
> OSX.
>
> Here's the link we should include, IMO:
>
> <http://python.org/download/>
>
> It has a straightforward link to Python 2.5.2
>
> The other page is about Python packages, rather than Python
> itself.

Thanks Carl - even I can understand that page and
see in 15 secs what I should do.  With that
link I agree it is not unreasonable to expect
Mac users to install python manually.

Trevor