> On 8 Nov 2019, at 5:20 pm, Sebastian Huber 
> <sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote:
> 
> On 07/11/2019 22:04, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 7/11/19 7:51 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>> Use macOS throughout.  Order release hints so that the latest macOS
>>> release comes first.
>> Thanks for this.
>>> +Catalina
>>> +~~~~~~~~
>>> +
>>> +In the
>>> +`macOS Catalina 10.15 Release Notes 
>>> <https://developer.apple.com/documentation/macos_release_notes/macos_catalina_10_15_release_notes>`_
>>> +Apple deprecated several scripting language runtimes such as Python 2.7.
>> This is almost right, it is present in Catalina but will be removed in future
>> versions. This is inline with the removal of tools like emacs and so 
>> expected.
> 
> I used more or less the Apple wording. Deprecated means to me that you should 
> start to investigate alternatives.

 Sure. 

> So, I added the recommendation to install Python from python.org. Apple says:
> 
> "Use of Python 2.7 isn’t recommended as this version is included in macOS for 
> compatibility with legacy software. Future versions of macOS won’t include 
> Python 2.7. Instead, it’s recommended that you run python3 from within 
> Terminal. (51097165)"
> 
> What would you recommend to RTEMS users?

I think we should say they use python 3 and python.org. I will have to update 
my build box.

We will support python 2 for a while to come as there will be a number of older 
hosts in production. 

Chris
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