On Monday, 7 April 2025 at 09:17:18 UTC-7 David Lowry-Duda wrote:
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but we already have --with-system-python3 that defaults to "yes", right? Is this different than the proposed --install_own_python option? I would expect that the flag *prefers* a system python that meets the set version requirements, but will proceed to try and build python3 if it cannot find a suitable version. The proposed change in behaviour would be to default to raising an error and halting the build attempt because in most situations, the absence of a suitable python3 is indicative of a deficient building environment anyway. Apparently users in that situations are generally better off going with conda to ensure the prerequisites are in place. That's not unreasonable, given that conda was developed exactly to provide people with a scientific computing environment. I can see why the architecture of the MacOS app is not well-suited for that approach, given that it should be self-contained. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sage-devel/0fb65984-b6fe-4bbe-9428-5e910a09168cn%40googlegroups.com.
