Hi Chris, I got around to doing a doorstop install that does not rely on homebrew, using the python.org <http://python.org/> distribution for 3.8
Everything worked fine - python3 is installed in /Library just like the OS X native python 2.7 Doorstop runs just fine too. Regards, Andrew > On 14 Oct 2019, at 18:49, Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > > 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Butterfield Tel: +353-1-896-2517 Fax: +353-1-677-2204 Lero@TCD, Head of Foundations & Methods Research Group School of Computer Science and Statistics, Room G.39, O'Reilly Institute, Trinity College, University of Dublin http://www.scss.tcd.ie/Andrew.Butterfield/ --------------------------------------------------------------------
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