If there are users that still depend on python 2.7, they can install it manually?
I mean I already think it's... interesting that an operating system comes with (multiple) programming language interpreters, available to the end-user.
I mean I already think it's... interesting that an operating system comes with (multiple) programming language interpreters, available to the end-user.
Apple is pretty aggressive about breaking backwards compatibility, as they did with x86, so it's no real surprise for unmaintained software to become completely unusable.
My company was shipping (somewhat niche) software linking with the built-in python2 up until last year though, and it’s been a scramble since Monterey to rebuild things to avoid the warning message. Definitely thought we would have python2 until 13.0 though (and part of me wonders whether this is just a “brown-out” for the beta and 12.3 release will be back to normal)
Yeah, fuck those end-users who might want to automate things with a script.
I am not to familiar with MacOS, but I imagine it comes with a bash/sh terminal? If so, then that is something that should be first choice for automation.
Everything else, be it python, perl, ruby or whatever should be installed by a user as needed.
Part of it is that it's just a mental burden to keep this kind of compatibility information in my brain. I have VMs set up of past macOS releases in case I need to run something old. I don't have VMs set up for earlier versions of a release, and I don't even know where I'd get an installer. Admittedly, in this case it would just be a matter of installing Python, but I don't necessarily know that as a user, or the software could need to be linked to Cocoa or some such.