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[Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian,

That's what I'm doing already (and have already been doing for months).

Please note: right now we say we support 10.7-10.10, and soon I'll switch
it over to say 10.7 to 10.11.

Adam Wolf
Cofounder and Engineer
W&L

On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Ian Woloschin <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> OS X has a builtin Python (on 10.10 it's Python 2.7.10, located at
> /usr/bin/python).  Can't you just use that, as it's provided by the system
> already and (almost) guaranteed to be there?  Particularly on 10.11 since
> SIP would prevent it from being touched...
>
> Most Linux distributions also automatically provide Python (BUT SOME HAVE
> JUMPED TO PYTHON3 ONLY!!!), and it's a lot of work to get rid of it since
> many utilities rely on it.  I think it'd be safe to assume it's there, or
> the package managers can get it there.
>
> -Ian
>
> On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:39 PM Andy Peters <devel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> > On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:32 PM, Bernhard Stegmaier <
>> stegmaier@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> > Of course, we could switch back to some package manager like home-brew
>> or MacPorts on OS X, but you would lose the ability to just download and
>> run an app bundle (everyone would have to “build” his own version - even if
>> it is just a pre-built download). This is not very Apple-like (but again,
>> that’s probably only a matter of taste).
>>
>> I would like to be the voice of MANY Mac users who don’t want to deal
>> with a package manger (homebrew, MacPorts, whatever).  The ideal
>> distribution format is a disk image from which the user drags the
>> executable to any location. The next-to-ideal format is a standard OS X
>> installer package.
>>
>> -a
>>
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