[Python-Dev] FWD: FTP URLs for Python source
Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-) - Forwarded message from "Douglas W. Goodall" - > From: "Douglas W. Goodall" > To: [email protected] > Subject: made too hard... > Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 05:57:15 -0800 > > Dear Sir, > > I am not sure why, but you have made it harder than it has to be to > fetch the python source for installation on a unix system such as > OpenBSD. > > I had to use the command line ftp client and it took a lot of time to > discover the real > URL of the download file. > > Here is what ended up working. > > ftp http://www.e you made it this hard on purpose. Yes, it is easy if > you > are using a web browser, but if you are on a unix system without X > it is a pain to get it when you don't know how. > > You might want to add the ftp URL to the web page for people like me. > > Respectfully, > > Doug > > --- > Douglas W. Goodall > 425 San Juanico Street > Santa Maria, CA 93455 > (805) 598-9099 > http://www.goodall.com > > I call on each of us to pray for our president. > He is who we have for the next four years, > and we need him to be successful for all of > us. God Bless America, and the President. - End forwarded message - -- Aahz ([email protected]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." --Ralph Waldo Emerson ___ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] FWD: FTP URLs for Python source
Aahz wrote: > Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I > couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if > anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to > python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-) I don't think it needs any action, except perhaps a half-polite response that we don't intend to change anything. a) if you are really sitting on the console of an OpenBSD system with no X installed, use lynx, or any other text browser: scroll down to "Source distribution", hit Enter b) alternatively, and even better: don't build Python from source at all. Instead, use pkg_add to install the Python version that you want, downloadable from ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD//packages//python-.tgz c) OTOH, if you had only connected to the OpenBSD system remotely (e.g. through ssh), just use your local web browser, to either * determine the full source download URL of the Python release you want to build, then wget on the target system, or * if your target system doesn't have wget, download it locally, then scp/rcp/ftp it to the target system. We cannot add an FTP URL to the download page, because we don't run an ftp server anymore, and don't plan to. [I don't quite get the "Here is what ended up working" part. What is http://www.e?] Regards, Martin ___ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
Re: [Python-Dev] FWD: FTP URLs for Python source
> Aahz wrote: >> Yes, this is ancient, I've been putting off dealing with it because I >> couldn't figure out who should handle it. At this point, I think that if >> anyone does it should be the release team, therefore I'm forwarding to >> python-dev. Feel free to tell me I made the wrong choice. ;-) Regarding OpenBSD, what's the problem with just using the port -- the 2.6 version seems to work fine. -- Sent from my mobile device ___ Python-Dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
