Zorg added the comment:
I understand that. I was mainly responding to a question that was asked with
information I felt was important to provide.
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Zorg added the comment:
Also more obviously: it's less convenient for others keeping themselves up to
date to set up an older development environment.
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Zorg added the comment:
> Why do you believe that is safer? Apple goes to great lengths to provide
> compatibility for existing applications to keep running on newer systems.
They also don't want developers to develop using older SDKs. Hypothetically
speaking, more informa
Zorg added the comment:
https://bugs.python.org/issue31359 has a better details about this issue.
I personally believe it's safer to link against a newer SDK and deal with the
trouble of finding out what to strip out, which will be opted into implications
or code paths that linking a b
Zorg added the comment:
The minimum OS target (which looks like 10.13) should ideally be well defined
and tested using the latest SDK, rather than there being "no promises". Or at
least it should be documented that this isn't currently supported, or how to
disable specif
New submission from Zorg :
If one wants to compile Python and embed it in their applications, or more
generally, deploy the framework / libraries to older systems, then Python needs
to check the existence of functions at runtime that are unavailable to Python's
supported minimum OS.
