On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 2:14 PM Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In their ongoing war against general computation, Apple has announced that > they deprecate (and presumably eventually remove) a Python interpreter from > OSX. > > Python is a dependency of the Sage binaries (for rewiting paths) and also for > building Sage. > > The easiest solution is probably to let people first manually install python, > though thats not exactly user-friendly for the binaries...
While I agree it's part of an annoying trend, this is one change I welcome: The Python interpreter shipped in OSX has always *always* been broken and unusable, and I've wasted countless molecules of oxygen explaining to Mac users that they shouldn't be using them, and should instead install a third-party Python (whether the official python.org app, homebrow, conda, etc.) A better, more welcome solution would have been if they just provided non-broken Python and Perl installations in the OS, but that would require maintenance and things like package management and Apple won't commit to so, yeah, instead we just get the middle finger :) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/CAOTD34a19yNNC2xSOFMDhaQWfUsNa1Y-AjgubL2hi6TdQ5wF0g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
