Deprecation of scripting languages in macOS

Ralph Seichter abbot at monksofcool.net
Tue Jun 4 16:18:54 UTC 2019


* Pierre Tardy:

> Those two relnotes looks incompatible..
> First says that no runtime will be distributed, and second suggests
> python3 will be available.

The statement "it’s recommended that you run python3 from within
Terminal." does not imply Apple will be providing a Python 3 runtime
environment. Used to be that Apple provided a Java RE, but now that is
left to Oracle. I imagine Apple might declare Python as what Douglas
Adams called a SEP.

-Ralph


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