Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
by nicce on Friday January 28, 2022 @01:50PM
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You are right, but I would say that this is quite extreme case. This is a programming language which support ended 2 years ago. Only reason to use it is to avoid turning old code base to new one. There are some serious questions if that is really a good approach. And if it is, why you need to use pre-installed Python 2 instead of installing it by yourself?
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Re:Apple removes Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 beta
by Wowfunhappy on Friday January 28, 2022 @02:24PM
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I expect that there are users, who are not themselves developers, who are using either apps or scripts which rely on the system-installed Python 2. They likely aren't aware that they're using Python, and they may not even know what Python is. It could be one line in one shell script block in one automator action that a coworker put together five years ago.
It's okay for that stuff to break. (I wish Apple would put more effort than they do into making it break less often, but that's neither here nor there.) But, it should break in a major release, when the user is prepared for things to break. It should not break in an update that was installed automatically overnight.