On 11/10/19 5:23 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote: > Hello Chris, > > I know that you don't like homebrew based solutions on macOS.
I do not mind homebrew or macports however for RTEMS is not practical to support them. > The reasons for this are understandable. Thanks > This is why I suggested to use the installer from python.org: > > https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/users/2019-October/067192.html > > There are Python 3 installers available for macOS from python.org: > > https://www.python.org/downloads/mac-osx/ For developers or users making changes to RTEMS this is fine. > According to the pip project site it is already installed for Python 2 >=2.7.9 > or Python 3 >=3.4: > > https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/ > > For example to install Python 3.7.4 on macOS you can use: > > https://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.7.4/python-3.7.4-macosx10.9.pkg > > I don't have a Mac and cannot test this. > > The Python 2.7 end of life is in 2 months and 20 days (January 1, 2020). The > first Python 3 release was in 2008. Are there plans from Apple to update their > Python support in Xcode to a state of the art version? I do not know what Apples has planed. I suppose at some point they will have too. > Using the doorstop tool > is not absolutely necessary right now. The file format is so easy, you can do > almost everything with a text editor by hand (and scripts). What you cannot > easily do is the calculation of the fingerprint, however, this can be done by > the one who commits a patch. So, in case a Python 3 support with pipenv is on > the Apple roadmap for the next year, this would make this easier. This sounds reasonable. Chris _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/users
