Skip to main content

mastodon - Link to source

I'm setting up a new M2 MacBook Pro, and it's been smooth sailing so far... until I tried to run "pip install lxml" and ran into some hairy error messages

The solution was to switch to a virtual environment created using a version of Python installed using Homebrew (I had accidentally been using the /usr/bin/python3 Python 3.9.6 that came with the system) - then everything worked fine

Wrote a quick TIL for the next person who gets stuck on this: til.simonwillison.net/python/l…


Installing lxml for Python on an M1/M2 Mac

I ran into this error while trying to run `pip install lxml` on an M2 Mac: ``` % pip install lxml Collecting lxml Using cached lxml-4.9.2.tar.gz (3.7 MB) Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done Bu
til.simonwillison.net
in reply to Simon Willison

Mark Gardner
mastodon - Link to source
Mark Gardner
• •

#Python, #Ruby, #Perl, and other #scripting runtimes have been deprecated since #macOS #Catalina 10.15 in 2019: developer.apple.com/documentat…

#PHP was removed entirely in #Monterey 12.0 in 2021: techgenyz.com/2021/06/18/macos…

#Python 2.7 was removed in Monterey 12.3 in 2022: developer.apple.com/documentat…

Plan accordingly for the rest to go without much warning.


macOS 12 Monterey update will no longer have built-in PHP

Apple launched the macOS 12 Monterey update almost a week back; that will not have built-in PHP. Developers need to install it manually
Bipasha Mandal (Techgenyz)
#perl #python #macos #ruby #catalina #php #scripting #monterey
in reply to Mark Gardner

Simon Willison
mastodon - Link to source
Simon Willison
• •
@mjgardner any idea why it has Python 3.9 installed? I had expected that it wouldn't have Python at all, hence my confusion when it turned out to be there (I didn't think to check for it before running "brew install python")
@Mark Gardner
in reply to Simon Willison

Mark Gardner
mastodon - Link to source
Mark Gardner
• •
I don’t have any inside knowledge, but at minimum #Apple would have to remove any other parts of #macOS that rely on it and make sure their apps and tools (including #Xcode) bundle their own rather than relying on it preinstalled by the OS.
#macos #apple #xcode
in reply to Mark Gardner

Christian ♭- har flyttat till
mastodon - Link to source
Christian ♭- har flyttat till
• •

@mjgardner I don't miss the bundled version of PHP, though; it just was a mess if you wanted to code PHP.

I can't remember when it was introduced but I guess it was a leftover since OS X Server was merged into the standard versions. @simon

@Simon Willison @Mark Gardner
in reply to Christian ♭- har flyttat till

Mark Gardner
mastodon - Link to source
Mark Gardner
• •

@christian And #Python 2.7 was released in what, 2009? It was supposed to EOL in 2015 but there was just too much unported code out there. legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep…

Imagine if #RakuLang had gone with its original plan to be #Perl6, and we had to wait for sufficient #Perl5 code to be ported before sunsetting the latter. (Never mind how that was rendered impossible when the community split.)

PEP 373 -- Python 2.7 Release Schedule

legacy.python.org
#rakulang #python #perl6 #perl5 @Christian ♭- har flyttat till
in reply to Mark Gardner

Elizabeth Mattijsen
mastodon - Link to source
Elizabeth Mattijsen
• •

@mjgardner @christian
Why are you dragging Raku into this argument?

I could go on with a lot of "what-ifs" going back to the sister language fiasco. But I won't.

@Mark Gardner @Christian ♭- har flyttat till
in reply to Elizabeth Mattijsen

Mark Gardner
mastodon - Link to source
Mark Gardner
• •
@lizmat @christian It’s not an argument. We were talking about the deprecation of scripting runtimes in #macOS. I know it’s a sore spot and I’m sorry.
#macos @Elizabeth Mattijsen @Christian ♭- har flyttat till
⇧